Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

Aligning Education with the UNCRPD: Discussion

Mr. Craig Kelly:

Yes, thank you. We can make decisions if we understand them. We want to work with hotels to make easy-read menus. We want to work with healthcare services to make easy-read documents so that people can make decisions about their own healthcare instead of having other people make those big decisions for them. Everything you read these days is very complicated. It does not need to be this complicated. Why cannot it just be written down in a way that everyone understands? It is all about empowering people to be in charge of their own lives. The Government can help with this by supporting the Ability Board to set itself up so it can be ready for this work.