Advocacy & Rights
The rights and entitlements of disabled people are very wide ranging and cover a lot of areas. We have divided this page into 5 sections covering advocacy, rights and entitlements, disability laws, and sectoral plans.
1. Click here to view the National Advocacy Service, Galway branch.
4. Click here to view the Laws and Treaties which outline the rights of disabled people
5. Law firms specialising in Disability Rights
Organisation Name: National Advocacy Service. Galway branch
Description: The National Advocacy Service assists disabled people by providing the following: 1. Assist you to speak up for yourself 2. Help you to decide what you want 3. Help you to say clearly what you want 4. Provide you with support to communicate with service providers 5. Support you to appeal a decision or make a complaint It provides an independent guide to services and options, and someone to assist a disabled person at official proceedings and, in some instances, through the move to living in the community. It is particularly important that an independent person is available to them where they are totally dependent on a single service provider. Essentially the service will level the playing field and provide a voice for the more vulnerable of people with disabilities
Services: Advocacy,Case Management
Organisation Address: Rebecca Leavy and Greg Duff
Galway city and county
Organisation Telephone Number: 087 0641163 / 087 9697404
Organisation Email Address: rebecca.leavy@advocacy.ie / greg.duff@advocacy.ie
Organisation Website: http://www.citizensinformationboard.ie/services/advocacy_services/
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Laws which outline the rights of disabled people
Some of the files below are in PDF file format. PDF files have been made more accessible to disabled people. Click on this sentence to view important information about PDF files and accessibility.
- Disability Act 2005
- Employment Equality Acts 1998-2008
- Equal Status Acts 2000 to 2008
- Equality Act 2004
- Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004
- Health Act 2004
- Health (Amendment) Act 2005
- Health (Repayment Scheme Bill) 2006
- Health & Social Care Professionals Act 2005
- Comhairle (Amendment) Bill 2004
- Childrens Act 2001
- Mental Health Act 2001
- A Vision for Change
- The Barcelona Declaration 1995
- National Disability Authority Act 1998
- Freedom of Information Act 1997
- Freedom of Information (Amendment) Act 2003
- Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003
- Report of the Commission on the Status of People with Disabilities 1996
- UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2008 (needs to be fully ratified by Dail Eireann)
Failure of the Irish Government to ratify the UN Convention on Rights of People with Disabilities & meet it's Obligations
Law Firms Specialising In Disability Rights
Government's Sectoral Plans for Disability
The Sectoral Plans below are in PDF file format. PDF files have been made more accessible to disabled people. Click on this sentence to view important information about PDF files and accessibility.
Sectoral Plan - Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources
Sectoral Plan - Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Sectoral Plan - Department of Health and Children
Sectoral Plan - Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government
Sectoral Plan - Department of Social Protection
Sectoral Plan - Department of Transport