A working group has reported to Minister for Justice and Equality Alan Shatter on the future protection and promotion of human rights and equality.
The report addresses the controversial merger of the Irish Human Rights Commission with the Equality Authority into what Minister Shatter says will be a new, enhanced Commission.
It proposes the wording of legislation to underpin the new body's powers and functions.
These range from mounting strategic court challenges to discrimination and human rights abuses to the monitoring, possibly by the Commission, of the implementation of the United Nations Convention on People with Disabilities.
However, Inclusion Ireland CEO Deirdre Carroll said it is a disgrace that there is still no regulation of residential services for people with intellectual disabilities.
The soon-to-be-merged Human Rights Commission has published the only official findings to date here of ongoing human rights infringements in such a service.
Its president, Dr Maurice Manning, said a key concern was that new Commissioners should be structurally independent of government.
