Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is not going to see its way through now.

There are two adoption Bills which are both on the A list. Work is proceeding with these. The Workplace Relations Bill has already been enacted.

In October 2015, the Government published a roadmap for Ireland's ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It detailed the legislative changes to be undertaken to enable Ireland to ratify the convention, along with the estimated timeframe involved and a clear line for ratification by the end of 2016. The Government approved the drafting of the equality/disability (miscellaneous provisions) Bill to make a range of miscellaneous amendments to statute law necessary to enable ratification. Work on the general scheme of this is under way.

The recently published employment strategy for people with disabilities, phase 2 of a three-phase consultation process, will lead to the adoption of a new disability inclusion strategy. There is a substantial legislative agenda across several Departments to get through, as set out in the roadmap, and much work to be done to prepare a new inclusion strategy that will have a real impact. The Government is committed to seeing that happens.

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