Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

Aligning Education with the UNCRPD: Discussion

Ms Claire Hayes:

I will echo everyone's comments. I agree with those final comments. To quickly summarise, active engagement with, and reflection on, our systems and policies and how they are disabling our peers are key. Even if overt discrimination is not happening somewhere, it does not mean inclusion is happening. We need to be proactive and take action. There is no better body than the Government to lead this and to offer all its members disability training behind that.