Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 July 2025
Committee on Children and Equality
General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Keira Keogh (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I again apologise. Members have been coming and going all morning. If the witnesses see me on the phone, it is because I have two members in the Committee of Public Accounts meeting next door, another who is in the wrong meeting and people taking part in radio interviews and different things. The witnesses should not feel it reflects on the importance we give this issue. It is just the last day before recess.
It falls to me to ask my question. We will then move to a second round. I will start with Dr. Begley and Dr. Raley. On the disproportionate burden test, I am thinking specifically about augmentative and alternative communication, AAC, devices. Yesterday, we were speaking about increasing voter turnout among people with disabilities. The issues in this regard included transport, technology and registration. How do the witnesses see issues involving AAC devices and related issues impacting on work, voting or other things?
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