James Lawless TD has called on the Minister for Health to ratify the UN Convention of Rights for People with Disabilities
Currently Ireland is the only European country to have not ratified the convention.
“I had the pleasure of meeting a most amazing, passionate and articulate young woman last week, Niamh Herbert from Sallins, who attended the House with me to request Members of the House to advance the passing of this Bill as expeditiously as possible and, indeed, to ratify the convention. Niamh is a student in Trinity College Dublin and she represents herself, the students’ union in the college and a group called Disability and I”. Continue reading “LAWLESS CALLS FOR RATIFICATION OF DISABILITIES CONVENTION”