Government urged to provide €20m in emergency funding

DISABILITY groups yesterday called on the Government to provide an extra €20 million in emergency funding to tackle the growing crisis in services for the mentally handicapped.

Government urged to provide €20m in emergency funding

They say cutbacks mean some disabled people will end up being admitted in to psychiatric hospitals because there are no suitable places left.

Deirdre Carroll of the National Association of the Mentally Handicapped of Ireland (NAMHI) said extra funding was needed urgently to ease the crisis.

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