Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 October 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

Participation of People with Disabilities in Political, Cultural, Community and Public Life: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Michael MoynihanMichael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Kerr. All that is left for me is to humbly thank the witnesses, including Ms Conway, Ms Daffy, Mr. Doherty, Mr. Sinnott, Mr. Kerr, Ms Loughlin, Ms Byrne and Ms Ó Brolcháin for their contribution to our meeting this morning. We are enriched by the evidence presented. Each meeting gives us a greater indication of the challenges that lie ahead. We have to be empowered by their evidence. We now have an extra hour for meetings, having had only two hours under the Covid restrictions. I do not know how we would have condensed this meeting into two hours. We had three hours this morning and it still was not enough.

I ask the witnesses to continue their work, to rattle the cage about where they are coming from, and to empower us to try to make a better society. I thank everyone for their evidence. We look forward to further engagement with them in our deliberations. I thank members for their accommodation of each other this morning with time-switching and so on. It is appreciated. I thank our back-up team, who we are grateful for.

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