Written answers

Thursday, 27 May 2021

Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

United Nations

Photo of Marian HarkinMarian Harkin (Sligo-Leitrim, Independent)
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91. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeline for the ratification of the optional protocol under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. [28656/21]

Photo of Roderic O'GormanRoderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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The Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is an international treaty that establishes two procedures aimed at strengthening the implementation and monitoring of the Convention. The first is an individual communications procedure allowing individuals to bring petitions to the Committee claiming breaches of their rights; the second is an inquiry procedure giving the Committee authority to undertake inquiries of grave or systematic violations of the Convention.

The Programme for Government reiterates the commitment to ratify the Optional Protocol after the first reporting cycle.

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