‘Cut politicians’ perks to provide proper services’

AN anxious mother believes if politicians reduced some of their “lavish perks”, her autistic teenage son would not have been denied a place at a specialist centre.

Catherine Dineen made the comments after learning that her 18-year-old son, Joseph, cannot get a place at Greenville House, Carrigtwohill, Co Cork, because of cutbacks.

Joseph had spent the last four years at the Brothers of Charity-run St Mary’s special school in Rochestown, Co Cork.