Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 December 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

Planning for Inclusive Communities: Discussion

Ms Fiona Weldon:

Funding and resourcing disabled persons organisations, DPOs, will help to build the capacity of local disabled people to say, collectively, what they want. You cannot do something without asking us beforehand. I did not mention co-creation as opposed to consultation. Those things are very different. We need to understand that we are all intersectional with all sorts and types of impairment with which we have to live. Our biggest disability is the structures in place. We allow it to happen. We continually fund support services that are not doing a great job. That is a big issue.

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