PRESS RELEASE:
The National Platform Of Self Advocates
Carmichael Centre, North Brunswick Street, Dublin 7
CONTACT: Administrator: Trish Finegan
Email: myvoiceireland@gmail.com
P.R.O Adrian Noonan
Email: Adrianpatrick.micheal1@gmail.com
The National Platform of Self Advocates is an independent self-advocacy organisation. It was set up to make sure that the voices of people with intellectual disability are heard.
We are inviting out-going TDs and Ministers and candidates for the forthcoming election to a discussion forum with the National Platform of Self-Advocates and members of disability services in the Dublin region.
Here are some of the Questions we will ask the politicians on the panel
The National Platform has put the following questions to the panel:
1. What steps will you take to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability?
2. How long will it take to put the structures in place to make the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 a legal instrument?
3. Will you establish a separate Cabinet Minister for Disability Inclusion?
4. How will you focus on ensuring that Human Rights is central to all policy?
Who will be attending?
Committee of the National Platform of Self-Advocates
Key personnel in the disability sector
Representatives of Disability services
Members of government
Candidates for General Election 2016
Here is some of the Candidates That are coming to our event on Tuesday the16 Of February
Joe Costello Labour
Malcolm Noonan or another Green
Liam Coyne Social Democrat
Maureen O’Sullivan Independent
Aengus O’Snodaigh Sinn Fein