Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2012, published 102nd ILC session (2013)

Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Convention, 1983 (No. 159) - Ireland (Ratification: 1986)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous and present comments. The Committee invites the Government to provide information on measures adopted to promote employment in favour of persons with disabilities in the context of its national policy and international cooperation. It also invites the Government to provide a report, describing in detail the national policy on vocational rehabilitation and employment for workers with disabilities, including practical data on the achievements in promoting employment opportunities for persons with disabilities in the open labour market, in particular for women workers with disabilities, as required by the Convention (Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention). The report should include detailed information on the efforts to achieve effective equality of treatment between men and women workers with disabilities and other workers (Article 4); the manner in which representative employers’ and workers’ organizations, as well as representative organizations of and for persons with disabilities are consulted on the implementation of the policy (Article 5); the vocational guidance and training, placement, employment and other related services provided to enable persons with disabilities to secure, retain and advance in employment (Article 7); the services provided for persons with disabilities without financial resources (Article 8); and the measures adopted in practice to ensure the availability of suitably qualified staff in the field of vocational rehabilitation (Article 9). Please also include information on the manner in which the Convention is applied including, for example, statistics, disaggregated by age and sex, extracts from reports, studies and inquiries, concerning the matters covered by the Convention.