People with disabilities must protest

PEOPLE with disabilities need to get out on the streets and campaign for their rights in order to stop the continued cutbacks they are suffering.

Rita Lawlor, 52, who has an intellectual disability, said “someone with a big strong voice” needs to stand up and speak out for the sector.

“I am raging about the cuts,” she said. “We are afraid they are going to keep cutting us. We need to stand up like the old people did when the Government threatened to cut the medical card.”