Mr. John Sherwin:

I was at an IHREC orientation event today related to our funding for interpreters. We spoke about research fatigue, disabled people and deaf people who are involved in research. A lot of people do not see the point of getting involved in advocacy, policy work and research because they do not see the results happening. If there were a growing culture of meaningful engagement, and we could see we were working with the State to make developments, the results may not happen as quickly as we would like but there would be an incentive for people to get involved. Many disabled people and deaf people who have strong voices, clarity of thought and advice on strategy on all of this have difficulty with being involved.