Ms Louise Loughlin:

From the point of view of making information on legislation accessible to people with disabilities, we would not have the scope to do such work. However, other organisations provide easy read materials on legislation that has been passed. Inclusion Ireland, in particular, would produce easy read versions of legislation. A number of weeks ago, for example, an easy read version of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 was up on its website within a day of the legislation being passed. It has pictorial representations to enable people to understand the law.

We would have easy read versions of our own materials. That would be the main focus of our work in this area and our easy read documentation would mainly be targeted at people with intellectual disabilities. There are recognised methods of producing easy read formats and certain standards must be met before information can be approved as being easy read.