Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 October 2025

Committee on Disability Matters

Autonomy and Integrity for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion

2:00 am

Ms Suzy Byrne:

Deputy Carrigy referred to the increase in information and strategies we are seeing throughout the public sector. We are starting to see that in the context of awareness. We might request reasonable accommodations for people attending court, for example, so that they are aware of what they will be facing in a courtroom, or if someone is attending a meeting for which a specific appointment is needed, rather than have that person sitting waiting for a meeting to happen, or that people know what is going to happen at a meeting or a process. A lot of advocacy work is to prepare people to ensure they are okay with what is going to happen, but also that they get their point across.