Crises will be the norm if we don’t plan for disability services
IT has finally been acknowledged by the minister of state for disabilities, Finian McGrath, that his target to have the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) ratified by the end of 2016 will not come to pass, citing “blockages within the legislative process”.
Ireland will now lose a race against time to prevent us marking the ignominious 10-year anniversary of signing the convention in March 2007 without ratifying it. Ireland also remains the last country in the European Union that has not yet ratified the convention.
