Bill ‘cuts number of disabled people entitled to services’

A CAMPAIGN group is furious that provisions in the Disabilities Bill will cut the number of disabled people entitled to services.

Bill ‘cuts number of disabled people entitled to services’

The Forum of People with Disabilities said the definition in the bill was extremely narrow and would exclude many disabled people from it provisions. The forum also disputed the Government’s claim that the recently published bill is rights’ based.

Forum director Mary Keogh said the proposed legislation limited the few rights that people with disabilities already have.

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