Rights of People with Disabilities
Dail Éireann — 2024-10-24
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Neasa Hourigan (GP), Dublin Central

People throughout the country will be delighted to hear it hopefully will be in place before the end of 2024. A huge number of people in the past five years have worked and campaigned hard to ensure there is governance and oversight in how we implement the UNCRPD. If I understand what the Minister has outlined, it is a relationship between the UN and the people of Ireland and then the UN communicates with the State of Ireland. I ask about this because persons with disabilities and their families, carers, mammies and daddies are tired. They are filling in endless forms and making endless phone calls. I want to ensure the optional protocol, which I hope we will not have to use too often, is accessible to them. I assume that if it falls short, Ireland can engage with the UN to ensure those accessibility issues are minimised.

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Sitting date: 2024-10-24