Ms Emily Logan:

I would like to make a comment on the process. We talked about the deliberative process with the Minister on 2 July. We have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

The commission is about to set an accelerated programme to engage with people with disabilities. We are setting up an advisory committee for people with disabilities to advise us as a commission. If the committee is suggesting any deliberative process, it should remain cognisant that we should not talk about care without talking to people who are in receipt of care or people who feel strongly about independent living, which is where the convention is taking us.

I would like Professor Mullally to talk about Article 45 because it has been spoken about at the commission.