Oireachtas Submissions and Statements

We make submissions to, or statements in front of various Oireachtas committees, on disability matters.

We are requested to make submissions to various Oireachtas committees, or to appear before Oireachtas committees on occasion.

You can read the various statements and submissions below.

Oireachtas Joint Committee on Disability Matters

March 2024: NDA Submission to the Joint Committee on Disability Matters on “The role of disabled persons organisations and self-advocacy in providing equal opportunities under the UNCRPD”

September 2023: Presentation to the members of the Joint Committee on Disability Matters on the National Disability Inclusion Strategy (NDIS) and the development of a UNCRPD Implementation Strategy.

April 2023: Opening Statement to the Joint Committee on Disability Matters on the importance of a rights based approach to disability matters in line with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

September 2022: Written Briefing on Accessibility to Oireachtas Joint Committee on Disability Matters and Oireachtas Joint Committee on Autism.

May 2022: Opening Statement to the Joint Committee on Disability Matters on the topic of Employment and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD).

NDA Submission to the Task Force on Safe Participation in Political Life

Ireland ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) in 2018. Article 29 sets out the framework for persons with disabilities’ participation in political and public life and stipulates that state parties shall “guarantee to persons with disabilities political rights and the opportunity to enjoy them on equal basis with others"

Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage

June 2022: Opening statement to Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Universal Design in new projects and public realm planning

Oireachtas Joint Committee on Autism

May 2023: Opening Statement to Oireachtas Joint Committee on Autism on the topic of accessibility of the public realm for people with autism

March 2023: Opening Statement to Oireachtas Joint Committee on Autism on the topic of services and
supports provided by the state for autistic people

October 2022: Submission - Oireachtas Joint Committee on Autism – services and supports provided by the State for autistic people.

September 2022: Written Briefing on Accessibility to Oireachtas Joint Committee on Disability Matters and Oireachtas Joint Committee on Autism.

Oireachtas Special Committee on COVID-19

June 2020: Submission to the Oireachtas Special Committee on COVID-19

Oireachtas Joint Committee on Enterprise Trade and Employment

February 2023: Opening Statement to Oireachtas Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment

Oireachtas Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media

May 2023: Opening statement to the Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media on the development of local and community arts, as relevant to disability.

January 2023: Written submission to the Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, sport and Media on the topic of Disability and the Arts.