Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

Enabling Community Inclusion for People with Disabilities: Discussion

Nem Kearns:

I thank all speakers. A few things were mentioned by the speakers regarding disability steering groups and various aspects at local level. I would be interested in knowing if anyone counts or collects data on the level of representation of DPOs and self-representative disability groups across those forums, committees and structures? Does the National Oversight and Audit Commission collect information and break it down in that way? Simply, is anyone counting how much DPO involvement there is? Is anyone distinguishing DPOs and self-representative groups from disability service providers or other non-self-representative groups? It was not clear to me in the conversation thus far.