Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2000, published 89th ILC session (2001)

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

Article 1, paragraph 4, and Article 3 of the Convention.  In previous comments, the Committee had noted the Government’s statement that persons with disabilities may be denied rehabilitative and other services if they abuse drugs, and had asked for further information on the services available to these people. In reply, the Government draws the Committee’s attention to the provisions of the Equal Employment Act, 1998, concerning the rights of the disabled. The Committee notes these provisions, and requests the Government to confirm in the next report that in practice persons with drug problems are also able to receive services.