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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)

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...

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

Eileen Flynn: I am involved in women's rights, including the rights of Traveller women, and women from other ethnic minorities. You see very few women with disabilities involved in the women's movement in Ireland. We want a women's movement and gender equality for women but for which women? Having listened to the witnesses the lack of engagement was really driven home to me. It is not the fault of...