Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank Deputy Stanton for raising the issue. We constantly talk about making places of employment and educational facilities disability friendly. We need an holistic response that goes beyond the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. Earlier this week I spoke to the Minister for Social Protection. I have no doubt I will speak again to the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. We do not have the pieces regarding further education and personal assistants, who have terrible work conditions, which is an issue that needs to be rectified. We need flexibility with all the grant schemes, such as reasonable accommodations in the workplace and travel assistance. It is about facilitating people to be all they can be. Everyone in society will benefit from this. We are either serious about this or we are not.

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