Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Unemployment Blackspots: Discussion
9:30 am
Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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It needs to drive it. Many Traveller organisations and disability representative groups receive State funding and employ people from their own community. That is not where our focus should be, however. Our focus needs to be on ensuring that people enter the broader workforce as well. Obviously, these organisations need staff, and staff with experience and life experience is really important, but there has to be a focus on broadening that out as well.
Sorry, Chair. I am conscious my time is up.