Joe O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We need to heed the issues the Deputy has raised. I urge individuals and groups to view the Green Paper as an opportunity to detail and express the barriers they face in society that prevent them from participating at an equal level. They include financial barriers and physical barriers in workplaces and public infrastructure. Crucially, as the Deputy referred to, there are also barriers of preconceptions and prejudices among employers. The Green Paper will give us an opportunity to talk about all these issues and, most importantly, come up with solutions. We are talking about a Green Paper, not legislation. The idea is that we have the debate first. We need to listen carefully to what we are told.

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