Budget plea by disability sector

FIVE disability organisations came together in Dublin yesterday to demand that people with an intellectual disability do not bear the brunt of budget cuts next week.

Seamus Greene, director of the National Parents and Siblings Alliance, said: “This is a bad time for the economy and, unfortunately, when times get bad for the country, times get even worse for the disability sector,” said Seamus Greene, director of the National Parents and Siblings Alliance.

Mr Greene, whose organisation was joined by Inclusion Ireland, the National Federation of Voluntary Bodies, the National Parents and Siblings Alliance, Irish Autism Action and Down Syndrome Ireland, said the situation for people with an intellectual disability was already dire.