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"Madam President, I am very pleased to be a co-signatory to this motion on sign languages and professional sign language interpretation. I applaud the important role of my colleagues, Ádám Kósa and Helga Stevens, in initiating this motion. It is, of course, a follow—on to Helga’s very successful event in the Parliament on sign language, where I had the opportunity to meet a number of Irish people from the deaf community.
But tonight, the question is: how can we progress the initiative? One opportunity is the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, where the Convention elaborates on the need for reasonable accommodation. But we all know that there can be no reasonable accommodation without the provision of qualified and professional sign language interpreters. For this to happen, we need many things, but, crucially, we need to see official recognition of national and regional sign languages in Member States and in the EU institutions.
I want to acknowledge the campaign that is underway in Ireland to achieve formal recognition of the Irish sign language. In Ireland, approximately 40 000 people use the Irish sign language, 5000 of whom are deaf and 35 000 are family and friends. At national and EU level, we must make the educational system, the health system, the judicial system, the political system and many other public systems as accessible as possible. Speaking of the education system, we must ensure that the deaf, hard of hearing and deaf—blind can access Erasmus."@en1
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