National Disability Strategies

The National Disability Authority (NDA) works to support the implementation of national disability strategies through our continued independent advice to, and direct engagement with, the departments and agencies concerned.

We also contribute through engagement and consultation with Disabled Persons Organisations and other disabled people, participation in relevant working, steering and advisory groups, and through our research and data gathering to inform our policy advice.

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The National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030

The National Disability Inclusion Strategy came to an end at the end of 2022. A successor strategy ‘The National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030’ will seek to progress implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). We led on a national consultation to inform the development of this strategy and await its publication by the Department of Children, Disability and Equality. Our consultation report will be published in tandem with the strategy.

Autism Innovation Strategy

The Government's Autism Innovation Strategy was launched in August 2024. We are responsible for the implementation of 12 actions under the strategy and are supporting implementation of a further three.

National Housing Strategy for Disabled People

Read more about this strategy on our housing page.

Cover of National Disability Inclusion Strategy

Previous Disability Strategies

Read an overview of some of the previous disability strategies and key reports.

Strategies and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD)

Although the National Disability Inclusion Strategy is the current vehicle for implementing the UNCRPD in Ireland it was developed before Ireland ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) in 2018.

We have carried out a comprehensive piece of work, tracking current legislation, policies, initiatives and practices against the Articles contained in the UNCRPD, to understand the potential for realising those rights through existing policy.

In November 2021, Ireland submitted its first state party report to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The report describes what Ireland is doing to protect and enhance the rights of people with disabilities. The work done under the National Disability Inclusion Strategy and Comprehensive Employment Strategy feature in this report.

The National Disability Inclusion Strategy (2017-2022) has to an end soon and the successor strategy 'The National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030' is forthcoming.

We have supported the development of this strategy through consultation and engagement with Disabled Persons Organisations and other disabled people, and through our research and policy advice.