Asylum seeker who commutes from Munster to Dublin to work awarded €5k in driving licence discrimination case

A State agency has been ordered to pay €5,000 to a mother currently living in a Direct Provision centre over its discriminatory race refusal to issue her with a learner driving licence.

At the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), Adjudication Officer, Patsy Doyle found that the indirect discrimination under the Equal Status Act suffered by the asylum seeker was “pronounced and obstructive to her efforts” in accessing work.