Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 May 2019

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Annual Budget Disability Proofing: Disability Federation of Ireland

Photo of John LahartJohn Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am finishing now anyway. I have asked my first question and will move on to the second. We can only do so much. We cannot provide services. We can continue to highlight in our report the need to take a step farther than was taken in last year's budget in terms of gender and disability budgeting, which we will, in order to increase consciousness of the issues and to encourage people to look at the nine areas. Perhaps we could chat about this on another occasion in order to ascertain how to influence these Departments and how to let them know that they are not doing enough in certain areas and that it is something about which we are really serious and which needs to be considered across Departments in formulating budgets. It is not enough for the Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform to embrace the need for it, although he does; each Minister needs to get onside with it. Perhaps the witnesses have suggestions in that regard.

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