Erin McGreehan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

IHREC is under the Department's aegis. It is independent but the legislation that underpins it was under the Department. It is the monitoring body. I can easily count loads of circumstances where different State bodies have failed in their obligations, whether, first, in their public service duties and second, under the UNCRPD. IHREC has the right and power to bring people and public sector bodies to court for failing their public sector duty. It could bring the HSE to court or a Department for failing its duty. We do not see a robust monitoring of that public sector duty. That is under the Department too. Has there been any monitoring of that and what IHREC has not been doing? It is not the Department's role to do it but we have written and passed the legislation. It has the role and it is has failed to do it.