Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 12:

In page 7, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: “(iii) by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (o):

“(p) to act as the independent mechanism to promote, protect and monitor implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities done at New York on 13 December 2006.”.”.

This very simple amendment seeks to insert a paragraph into the section based on the intention in the general scheme of the Bill, which was to provide that the commission would act as an independent mechanism to promote, protect and monitor implementation of the convention. The additional commission function proposed in the Bill makes no reference to the independent mechanism or to the UNCRPD more broadly. The function proposed under the Bill should be clearly linked to the commission's designation as the independent mechanism under Article 33 of the UNCRPD. The amendment would better align the view of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities that the State must adopt the necessary legal measures to establish the independent mechanism clearly. That is what we are seeking to do with this amendment.