Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 January 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol (Resumed): Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

Photo of Holly CairnsHolly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Would it be possible for the Department to re-examine the matter - perhaps annually, every half-year or whatever - in order that in the early stages, it will be done a little sooner in order to see what is happening. In such circumstances, a standard would be established, but maybe a year later, and we would still lack any kind of standard being applied for the first while? I do not have the solution. I am wondering if the Department could look at that to see what could be done. Perhaps the committee could do so as well. It is a concern if someone is going to go into the courts and there is a geographical lottery as to whether a right such as that to which I refer is taken away from him or her.

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