The National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030 was published on 3 September 2025. It sets out a whole-of-Government approach to disability and to progressively realising the rights of disabled people under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

The National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030 is Ireland’s plan to advance the realisation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. We are committed to the principles of the Convention - to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all disabled people and to promote respect for their inherent dignity. Ultimately, our goal is to ensure that disabled people are supported and empowered to live full lives of their own choosing.

The Programme for Government 2025 prioritised the publication and funding of a new National Disability Strategy, setting out a vision to 2030. It adopted a whole-of-Government approach to advancing the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Individual Government Departments and State Agencies are responsible for planning and delivering the commitments that come under their remit across five key Pillars:

• Pillar 1: Inclusive Learning and Education
• Pillar 2: Employment
• Pillar 3: Independent Living and Active Participation in Society
• Pillar 4: Wellbeing and Health
• Pillar 5: Transport and Mobility

P.38 Priority Actions 2025-2026 include:

14.2 Ensure that disability is incorporated into the Inclusion Health Framework. We will address intersecting challenges for disabled people who are homeless, Travellers, Roma, ex-offenders, and people who use drugs and alcohol. (Department of Health)

16.1 Ensure the funding for new and existing community development programmes on well-being enhances community connectedness for disabled people. (Department of Health)

16.2 Design and deliver Physical and Mental Health initiatives that are inclusive and accessible to disabled people of all ages, including the provision of counselling supports for disabled people undergoing treatment in health services. Ensure that accessible health programmes, such as Healthy Ireland campaigns, have disabled people specifically incorporated into their design. (Department of Health)

[Note, accessible versions of this report can be found on the Department's website]