Minister to open conference on disability in Galway

Galway Bay Fm news –
A conference on how new ideas can turn disability into change that transforms lives will be opened by Minister Kathleen Lynch in Galway tomorrow (Monday)
The conference at NUIG titled ‘Disability Policy Entrepneurship in the 21st Century – Turning ideas into change that transforms lives’ will bring together major agents of change in the disability policy field around the world.
Speakers will include the Minister as well as EU Commissioner and Galway native Maire Geoghegan-Quinn and Senator Tom Harkin from the US Senate.
The conference will link future disability reform agendas with research and policy work and is co-ordinated by NUI Galway’s Centre for Disability Law and Policy.
It will be of interest to regional organisations, businesses and services as well as being of importance to academics, students and researchers interested in the UN convention as an engine of positive change for persons with disabilities.
The conference will continue at NUIG until Wednesday.