Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 April 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority

Dr. Rosalyn Tamming:

The Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Act, which will be commenced next week, contains provision for the NDA to the IHREC with data and statistics for it to perform its UNCRPD monitoring role. It is the official monitoring body for the State in that regard. We have a role there. We engage regularly with IHREC on various issues, share reports and meet. It is an area we can explore further. Once the legislation is commenced, we will probably speak to IHREC with regard to developing a memorandum of understanding for this other piece of work relating to UNCRPD reporting and can look at how we can support one another. We can give it information to-----

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