Eoghan Kenny (Cork North-Central, Labour)
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881. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update as of July 2025 on the Programme for Government commitment to continue to ensure employers make reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities in the workplace; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41006/25]

Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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The rights of people with disabilities to reasonable accommodation in the workplace cover the entire employment process, beginning with applying and interviewing for a job, and are very comprehensive. They are set out in the Employment Equality Acts 1998 to 2015. People who feel that their right to reasonable accommodation in any of these situations has been curtailed, can bring a complaint to the Workplace Relations Commission, which is the main institution to vindicate these rights.

In the upcoming National Human Rights Strategy for People with Disabilities, one of the commitments of my Department is to convene a Forum on the topic of Disability and Employment which will be a sub-forum of my Departments' Enterprise Forum. I anticipate that best practice examples on how to accommodate disabled workers, and dialogue between stakeholders which will generate new ideas and fresh approaches in this area, will form an important part of the work of the Forum and support progress in this important area, thereby meeting the Programme for Government commitment.