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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Article 23 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Professor Eilion?ir Flynn: I completely support the points made by Nem and they are very valid. I want to touch on some of the other topics about which there were questions. With regard to legal or legislative barriers to disabled people adopting or fostering, in our view we did not come across any strictly formal legislative barrier in our research on reproductive justice and disability...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Article 23 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: It is good to see the witnesses again. I thank them for their submissions, which I read last night and earlier today. To be honest, I found the information in them disturbing. Some of it is horrifying. We definitely need to broaden the conversation about violence against women and we need a much greater emphasis on violence against disabled women. There is not enough knowledge about it....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Article 23 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Nem Kearns: There was an NDA report a few years ago on experiences of maternity services, which was great to see. It looked at choice in maternity and postnatal support and found that disabled women were far less likely to be offered choice and that they did not feel they were treated with equal respect or given equal access to information about their pregnancy and options within it. I...