Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 December 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

Sustainable Development Goals and Disability Issues: Discussion

10:00 am

Dr. Mary Keogh:

I thank Deputy O'Sullivan for that question. I would always advocate for increased funding for disability organisations that are representative of disabled people, whether these are at home in Ireland or overseas within our international development work. Ultimately, disabled people are experts for themselves. We have come through a period of exclusion and are now at the table, so now is the time for funding and facilitation to support that.