Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)
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348. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a clear and unambiguous deadline for ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities beyond the general outline in the roadmap to ratification of the convention she has provided. [41789/15]

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (Dublin North Central, Labour)
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The Roadmap to Ratification sets out the substantial legislative agenda required for ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

The deadline of end-2016 for completion of the legislative agenda, as set out in the Roadmap to Ratification, is clear and unambiguous.

As previously indicated, Minister Fitzgerald and I approved the drafting of an omnibus Bill to progress miscellaneous legislative amendments necessary to proceed to ratification. Work on the General Scheme of the Equality/Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill is underway with a view to submission to Government very soon.