After reeling from recent comments by Disability Minister Finian McGrath suggesting parents were ’dumping’ their children in institutions, Ina O’Dwyer says his crusade to close residential centres caring for people with profound disability is not in their interests.

Kerry County Council has heard five separate motions calling for the Government not to “decongregate” 76 people, some of whom are profoundly disabled, from a much-loved community facility in Beaufort.