Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I have no doubt about that. It certainly would be my suspicion and belief that, as Gary Lee has set it out, had we ratified when we should have ratified ten years ago when we signed the convention, we would not have been able to carry out all the nasty, vicious austerity cuts that were inflicted in recent years that disproportionately impacted on people with disabilities because we would have been called out by the UN on those things. All the cuts in housing, public transport, health and social protection disproportionately and brutally impacted on people with disabilities. Gary Lee listed just a few of them, including the cuts to the mobility allowance, the motorised transport grant, the benefit allowance, medical cards and home helps.

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