Disability Rights for Ireland Right Now

Ireland signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) in 2007.

Ireland has yet to ratify the Convention 10 years later and is shamefully the only EU state not to have done so.

Fianna Fail, the PD's,The Green Party, Fine Gael, The Labour Party and Independents including Finian McGrath Minister of State with Responsibilities for Disability have shared power during this period.

While the convention contains no new rights,what it does is bring together in one document, all existing rights in other conventions and international human rights and treaties, that give equal status to persons with disabilities.

If the UNCRPD were ratified what would this mean?

For example cuts to services that would prohibit a person with a disability playing an equal role as a citizen of the Republic of Ireland and in their community would be in breech of an international convention.

Many cuts to Disability Services occurred during the economic downturn from 2007.

There are around 600,000 people with disabilities currently living in the Republic of Ireland. They deserve equal status .

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Disability Rights for Ireland Right Now.

South Tipperary Disability Groups Forum