The Workplace Relations Commission
The State body overseeing special education for adults and children with disabilities has been ordered to pay €40,000 in compensation to a deaf man for denying him a job interview because he lacked an academic qualification in Irish Sign Language.
The National Council for Special Education was ruled to have indirectly discriminated against the job applicant, Noel O’Connor, in breach of the Employment Equality Act 1998, when it turned down his application for a post as “advisor deaf/hard of hearing” in April 2022.