Disability groups cautious over long-awaited bill

THE long-awaited and controversial Disability Bill will finally be published tomorrow after a delay of close to three years.

First published in December 2001, the bill was hastily withdrawn by the Government after it received severe criticism from the disability sector for failing to guarantee any of the rights it was claiming to offer.

Although the new version of the bill is understood to offer a form of access to the courts in order to guarantee rights, disability campaigners and groups last night remained cautious.