Dr. Rosaleen McDonagh:

I am going to leave after this and I hope I am not showing disrespect. I will leave you in the capable hands of Mr. Harris. What I want to say is in the context of disabled people and their liberty. There is the question of availability of independent advocacy services alongside health and legal supports. There needs to be a triage and independent advocacy needs to be at the centre of the triage. My parting words will be around the delays in the publication and the enactment of the inspection of places of detention Bill. Where is that at? We have a bad history of incarceration of many different cohorts of people including women, children, disabled people and ethnic minorities. Within that it is only in recent times that we have introduced institutionalisation to our vocabulary. But within the process of de-institutionalisation, we need places that are community-based, well funded and well resourced in which people choose to live. More importantly, we need legal and legislative policies to be implemented. At the moment, going back to IHREC's original statement about segregating or prioritising one group of disabled people from another, that is not useful at all in terms of general health, well-being and progressive mental health services. I am going to go now, is that okay?