As Generation F’d, the three-part documentary series looking at the bleak prospects for Ireland’s 25-35 year-olds, continues we look at how does Irish society protect its most vulnerable people, particularly those with a disability as viewers meet Maria, who is a wheelchair user and follow her fight to find employment. Maria is a wheelchair user who is determined not to let her disability hold her back. She has designed an app for wheelchair users in Drogheda and is involved with an employment support project, WALK PEER. WALK is massively important in Maria’s life as her main goal in is to get full time employment. However, the Government suddenly announce that there will be no more funding available for the project, although Maria plans to do whatever she can to campaign to save the association. We also explore how employers are exploiting workers with zero hour contracts and meet Lauren, who highlights the fear people are living in when they don’t know from week to week what they will earn. Experts explain the government’s total lack of legislation to protect worker’s rights. Lauren is on an 8-hour contract in a sports shop in Sligo. Although she enjoys her job, she never knows from week-to-week how much she is going to earn. She feels it holds her back in life and that she is stuck in a rut. Rising costs like her car insurance almost doubling mean she can’t enjoy an active social life. She also fears she may never be able to move out of home as she goes through what she calls a “quarter life crisis”. In episode two, we continue to follow Ciara and Colin in their efforts to rebuild their lives after a period of homelessness. Ciara patiently waits to find out if she has been offered a position as a care assistant and is finally rewarded with the good news she has been hoping for. Although still living in emergency accommodation, the future is starting to look less bleak for the couple. Builder Andy continues to struggle to put fo