Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy will be pleased to know that we are making good progress in this area. We agreed at Cabinet this morning to publish the heads of the Bill on deprivation of liberty. This was one of the next big steps to be taken to allow us to ratify the convention. Cabinet did not get all of its business done this morning so we will reconvene this afternoon. I anticipate that, as a consequence, the Minister of State, Deputy McGrath, will be able to make a positive statement with regard to our ratification of the UN Convention for Persons with Disabilities. I hope we will be able to make that statement in the next couple of days.

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