Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 February 2022
Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth
General Scheme of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Peter Kearns:
I thank Deputy Cairns for her question. It is around the will and preference and the capacity-building of disabled people to make effective preference choices. On the linking of the ADMC with the UN convention, the articles are good on effective participation and how to go about it. If we leverage the capacity-building of disabled people with DPOs, it will be a role of the DPOs to give confidence to disabled people to make effective preferences and also to separate it from the baggage that goes with people's impairment label.
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