Last week I attended a consultation organised by the National Disability Authority on behalf of Minister for State with responsiblity for Disability and Mental Health, Kathleen Lynch. Your Voice, Your Choice brought together 160 people with disabilities, family members and advocates to discuss a range of issues about Disability in Ireland today. There were […]
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Niall Crowley writes about the legislative proposal for the new Human Rights and Equality Commission Alan Shatter recently published the Heads of a Bill for merging the Equality Authority and the Irish Human Rights Commission into a new body to be called the Human Rights and Equality Commission. The Minister highlighted his commitment to complying […]
The Scottish Human Rights Commission and the Equality and Human Rights Commission Scotland have produced a really excellent video on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This is the convention that Ireland can’t ratify because of an 1871 Lunacy Act that has yet to be repealed. Yes 1871. And even if […]
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Claiming Our Future are holding a major public event on Saturday 26 May in Croke Park on democratic and political reform. The movment is about alternatives and has organised events in the past twelve months on income inequality and sustainable development and economics. This time the debates will centre on local government and the way power and decision […]
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Last week (when few were watching) Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton published his detailed plans for amalgamating the various employment rights bodies into a ‘ World Class Employment Relations Service’. The government had previously announced it’s intention to bring all the functions of the Labour Relations Commission, National Employment Rights Authority and […]
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