Uimhir Thagarta Uathúil: 
KE-C1-52
Stádas: 
Submitted
Údar: 
Catherine White

Chapter 1: Introduction

Ábhair: 

Guidance for Public Bodies on Providing Access for Deaf Irish Sign Language Users

https://www.ucc.ie/en/media/research/iss21/GuidanceforPublicBodiesonAccessProvisionforDeafISLUsers.pdf

https://www.ucc.ie/en/iss21/researchprojects/researchprojects/completedresearchprojects/islaccesspublicbodies//

Why and when to Book a Sign Language Interpreter

https://risli.ie/interpreters/why-and-when-to-book-an-interpreter/

Access to Informaton

Disability Act Section 28(a)

States that “where a public body communicates with one or more persons, the head of the body will ensure if the communication is an oral one and the person has a hearing impairment that as far that is practicable, the contents of the communication are communicated in a form that is accessible to the person concerned”.

This means the public bodies have a statutory obligation to provide accessible communication to the individual and if they do not they would need to justify why it would be impracticable.