Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 April 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters
A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority
Mary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael)
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I apologise for cutting across Dr. Hartney but the Central Statistics Office reports of this week show that people know how to give the politically correct answer when surveyed on their attitudes to disability, but when done anonymously, there is a great disparity in regard to actual inclusive thinking. This goes back to the point about the plastic bag tax. Sometimes it is not until people have to pay for something or until there is a proactive, clear deterrent that there will be a paradigm shift.