The Government recently released its official response to the UN committee,which last year reviewed this country's performance under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
And Ms Wagner has also announced the formation of a new interagency disability data and evidence working group.
As a leader on disability issues, New Zealand was ''held to a high standard'', which was being met, but more could always be done to improve the lives of disabled people, she said.
Dunedin ACC claimant group Acclaim Otago last year prepared a ''shadow report'' on New Zealand's convention related performance, after gaining a $8550 grant from the Law Foundation.
And former president Dr Denise Powell discussed the report with the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in Switzerland.
Dr Powell agreed that New Zealand had shown considerable leadership over disability issues, but Acclaim Otago was concerned the Government was not giving a stronger human rights focus to ACC's operations.
She was also concerned about the inadequacies of legal aid, and the shortcomings of a proposed ACC tribunal, to replace current access to the courts, over ACC appeals.
The UN committee recommended that the Government ''examine the processes'' for assessing of compensation by ACC to ensure adequate legal aid was available, and ensuring this mechanism had a ''human rights focus''.
A recent Government report said it accepted a committee recommendation on ACC related legal aid, ''to the extent that legal aid was available to all persons who could not afford to hire a lawyer''.
And there would be ''full, robust and effective consultation'' with stakeholders over the tribunal proposal, the report said.
