Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 February 2022

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Accessibility for Individuals with Disabilities in Arts and Culture: Discussion

Mr. Pádraig Naughton:

There are many countries that are working in this space. Sometimes we like to pride ourselves on being brilliant at stuff. I do mean that to refer to just us Irish. In the disability space, as advocates, we like to think we have got it sorted but we should be more like magpies and learn all the time from other people. There are things we do from which other people can learn. When we did our big summit last year, and this was something I had not seen elsewhere, we decided to make it available as a digital experience in Irish, American and British sign language because those were our largest audiences. We had to technically reinvent the virtual space to make that happen because it had not been done before. We did not realise that until we did it. People learned from that and, equally, we are learning from others all the time. We need to keep learning.

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