Dr. Mary Keogh:

I concur with Mr. Lamson on the question of data disaggregation. The Washington group questions focus on this and they are being pushed at a global level in terms of the policy perspective. I have just returned from a workshop in New York that involved a number of disability organisations from a range of countries whose members were being trained up in the use of the Washington group questions. When the questions were originally devised it was for a census but they have now been adopted by a number of NGOs and are being used for other purposes. There is a movement around how to use data disaggregation so that data can provide evidence and advance policy development. Irish Aid would want to look at the group's questions from this point of view.