Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 December 2015

Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Joint Sub-Committee on Human Rights relative to Justice and Equality Matters

UN Convention on the Rights of Older People: Discussion

10:00 am

Photo of Anne FerrisAnne Ferris (Wicklow, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the delegates and commend Age Action Ireland on its work. I know it only too well from our hearings on the abolition of the mandatory retirement age. The important question for us today as a sub-committee is how we can help with the open-ended working group to get the whole issue further on the agenda and what the Government can do. In that context the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade was mentioned. Is the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade working on this issue?

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