Government to ratify protocol allowing people with disabilities to take case to UN

Ratifying the protocol has been a long-standing campaign ask for disabled rights organisations, as well as being called for by the Law Society and Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission.

Children's Minister Roderic O'Gorman will ask the Government to approve ratification of the protocol, which will be a major milestone in the rights of people with disabilities.

Ireland will finally pass a much-demanded for protocol for people with disabilities under plans to be brought to Cabinet on Tuesday.

Ireland has yet to ratify the optional protocol to UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, which it signed in 2018. The optional protocol establishes a complaints mechanism under the convention, and its absence was one reason why disability advocates said they were against March's referendum on care — which was resoundingly defeated.