Nem Kearns:

Ms Hassett addressed the point I was going to raise. Civil society organisations that have a role in data collection, particularly at the intersections of sexual violence, sexuality, gender, race and ethnicity, need specific ring-fenced funding for disability collection within their data. We are completely missing that in the Irish context. They are the experts in those communities and in participatory research with those communities. I am sure the committee is aware this merits specific focus. The concluding remarks issued by the committee on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD, under Article 6 in addition to Article 31, stated that the collection of data specifically disaggregated on race and gender is of upmost importance. The CRPD cannot be implemented without these data. It should be at the forefront, crosscutting every article of the CRPD.