Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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130. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the engagement he has had on the policy of progressing disability services; and if he has contacted other Ministers regarding the policy. [16165/21]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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My Department's role is to co-ordinate and monitor national disability policy through two strategies, the National Disability Inclusion Strategy and the Comprehensive Employment Strategy for People with Disabilities and through the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.  It is a matter for each Department to implement the relevant commitments in each of the strategies or under the Convention.  

The change progress entitled Progressing Disability Services is the responsibility of the Department of Health.