Dr. Iris Elliott:

There is a real lack of intersectionality. Again, I feel that 20 years on Dr. McDonagh and I are probably still having the same conversations along the lines of "We will get to disabled women and girls when we get the universal system up and running", and it is absolutely not sufficient.

I would connect the policy work but I refer also to the legislative work. We now have hate crime legislation. It is extremely important that that is accessible in terms of justice for disabled women and girls. We do not have hate speech legislation, and disabled women and girls are very affected by intersections of misogynistic hate speech and hate crime targeted towards disabled people. There are also particular characteristics of hate crime against disabled people, including women and girls, like mate hate, that need to be reflected in legislation. There is a piece there about the public discourse, which I think Dr. McDonagh has touched on, there is a policy piece to be done and then there is a piece around the legislative framework. As the national human rights institution, we would always argue for domestic implementation of international bodies' recommendations, including observations, particularly in light of the fact that ours is a wealthy country and nobody accepts that Ireland does not have resources to tackle this.