Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 24 March 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters
Standard of Living and Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection
Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party)
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That is fair enough. One of the topics we talk about frequently in this committee is that the topic of disability straddles several Departments and it can be difficult to align things sometimes. My impression is that the Council of Irish Sign Language Interpreters, CISLI, comes under the national disability inclusion strategy, NDIS. Does that mean it falls within the ambit of the Department of Social Protection? If so, is that the right place for it? As we are moving to a rights-based model, should it perhaps be more correctly placed in a different Department? Perhaps I am wrong about this, and it does not fall within the remit of the Department.