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

People Before Profit also wrote to the Business Committee to ask that the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Deputy Catherine Martin, be willing to take questions and have a back-and-forth debate so that we can get to the bottom of the shambolic mess in RTÉ. The Government should agree to that.

I want to raise another issue about the forthcoming referendum. People with disabilities are absolutely furious about the failure of the Government to insert rights for people with disabilities into the Constitution in the care referendum. People Before Profit is voting "Yes" in both of the referendums, but we are doing so distinctly unenthusiastically. Many people with disabilities who would otherwise have voted "Yes" are seriously considering voting "No" on the care referendum because of the pathetic failure to put in clear constitutional commitments to rights for people with disabilities. If the Government wants to address their concerns, we should have an urgent debate on the optional protocol and inserting real rights for people with disabilities so that they have legal equality in this country.

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