UN disability committee member calls for O'Gorman to clarify Dáil remarks

Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth Roderic O'Gorman has been asked by a UN disability committee member to clarify remarks made in the Dáil. Buildings, Dublin. Picture: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

A UN committee vice chair has written to Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman calling for a clarification of his comments which he says were misinterpreted in the Dáil.

Jonas Ruskus, who is a member of the UN's Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, said he had became aware of a statement made by Mr O'Gorman in the Dáil during which he referred to remarks he made on Ireland's Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act.