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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Role of Disabled Persons Organisations and Self Advocacy in Providing Equal Opportunities under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Implementation: Discussion (8 Apr 2024)

Ms Jane O'Keeffe: My name is Jane O’Keeffe and I am a 38-year-old mother of one from Cork. I will give the committee a brief history of how I became an amputee. Roughly this time three years ago, I was pushing my then five-month-old daughter in her buggy when my right hand started to get a bit sore. I did not think much of it at the time but it was still a bit uncomfortable a few...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Role of Disabled Persons Organisations and Self Advocacy in Providing Equal Opportunities under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Implementation: Discussion (8 Apr 2024)

...since 2005. Basically, I am not disabled enough. I am Jamie Kent from Waterford. A little over 20 years ago, at the age of 28, I suffered an accident while competing in a motorsport event in Cork. It was a split-second that would change my life forever. Before 4 October 2003, I was an active person running a business and living life to the full. That day I broke my knee, my pelvis,...

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