Submissions from 2021

We are currently in the process of creating accessible pdf and word documents of all our submissions, which we will upload soon. If you would like a copy of any of these submissions before they are uploaded here, please email disabledwomenireland@gmail.com

Submission on the Initial Draft State Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

In December 2020, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth published a draft of the report they would submit to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This is the first report that would be submitted as part of the process to monitor Ireland’s progress in implementing the UNCRPD. The Department called for submissions from interested parties and following a number of consultation events DWI submitted our report in April 2021.

Review of Mental Health Act 2021

Submissions to Oireachtas Joint Committee on Disability Matters 

In March 2021 Disabled Women Ireland presented in front of the Joint Committee on Disability Matters for International Women’s Day

In September 2021 the Joint Committee on Disability Matters invited us to write a  submission on the challenges faced by persons with a disability participating in political, cultural, community and public life. This is Articles 29  and 30 UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

In November 2021 the Joint Committee on Disability Matters invited us to write a submission on how to ensure an independent and adequate standard of living and social protection for people with disabilities. This included how means testing, disability allowance, and other disability payments, access to mortgages, finance, and financial services act as a barrier to a true realisation of independent living. 

Review of Ireland’s Equality Acts

In December 2021 DWI wrote a submission for the review of Ireland’s equality laws. The laws include the Equal Status Acts 2000-2018 and the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2015. The submission included our members' opinions on how useful the Acts are in protecting disabled people from discrimation, the barriers to making a complaint and why we need the law to recognise our intersecting and multiple identities.