Services for people with disabilities at ‘crisis point’

SERVICES for people with intellectual disabilities have hit crisis point, it was claimed yesterday.

NAMHI, the organisation working to promote the rights of those with intellectual disability, branded the number of people awaiting services and income support “a crisis reminiscent of the worst days in the early 1990s”.

NAMHI president Stephen Kealy said the Government must prove itself to people with intellectual disabilities by funding the backlogged services in the upcoming Budget.