Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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64. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 266 of 27 May 2020, if his Department has developed a United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities implementation plan to co-ordinate the delivery of Ireland’s commitments to implementing the UNCRPD; if the plan has been published and is publicly accessible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30069/21]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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The Programme for Government, along with the Mid-Term Review of the NDIS, commits to establishing a UNCRPD Implementation Plan. This Plan will coordinate and monitor progress on implementing the UNCRPD across Government departments. DCEDIY will play a lead role in coordinating the Implementation Plan with individual Departments also having responsibility for drafting their own individual plans to feed into the National Plan.

Priority to-date has been given to preparing for the submission of Ireland’s Initial State Report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities . The Initial State Report is at an advanced stage following a public consultation process and will be submitted later this year.

Design of the UNCRPD Implementation Plan has now begun. As a first step a concept note was discussed by the National Disability Inclusion Strategy Steering Group, which is chaired by my colleague the Minister of State with Responsibility for Disability Anne Rabbitte T.D., in its June 2021 meeting. Design of the Plan will involve significant cross-government working and involvement and consultation with stakeholders. It is intended that the design of the Plan will conclude this year with the final Plan being submitted to Government in early 2022.

When finalised, the Plan will be launched and published, including in accessible formats.