Committee on Disability Matters

Organisation name in original language

Category of human rights structure

Parliamentary structure/mechanism

Country

Ireland

Type(s) of body

Not applicable

Legal source(s)

  • Established following orders of the Dáil Éireann and the Seanad Éireann on 22 September 2020 and 25 September 2020 respectively.

Human rights capacity support

  • None

Functions

  • Considers all matters relating to disability, including monitoring Ireland’s implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Specific mandates

Not applicable

Structured cooperation with partners at national level

  • Ministers regularly appear before the committee, as do officers from all government departments.
  • The committee may invite any person to appear and frequently meets with representatives of civil society and accepts their submissions.

Structured cooperation with partners at international and EU level

  • None

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