Ms Frances Quan Farrant:

I could wax lyrical about climate change and its impact on people with disabilities in Australia. Australia is the canary in the coalmine when it comes to climate change. We have been through three years of La Niña, which is a weather system in the Pacific. It dumps rain on the east coast of Australia. It has caused catastrophic floods. What we found, particularly in Lismore in northern New South Wales, was that the impacts on people with disabilities were profound. People drowned in their homes because they were on a flood plain. Disability has to be part of every aspect of policy when it comes not only to climate change, transport and education but to everything. It is about all 31 articles of the UNCRPD. Legislation needs to be retrofitted. I do not think anyone in Ireland needs me to talk about rain.