Human rights a great idea, but not at home

YOUR political correspondent Harry McGee’s account (Irish Examiner, June 29) of the Government’s abject failure to deliver on its own promise of a rights-based Disability Bill highlights again the huge challenges facing those working to seek social justice in Ireland.

Disability groups and many others from varied sectors representing women, the elderly, children, travellers, the homeless, refugees, health service users, minorities, etc have all accurately identified the human rights based approach as the way to address their needs and to deliver on their entitlements.

However, the Government is continuing to propagate the myth that human rights based legislation will present an unbearable burden on the state.