‘They did not think this through’

THE Government may have taken just one day to back down on plans to cut disability benefits for young people but it will take a lot longer to repair the anger and mistrust the budget blunder has caused.

“It’s maddens us so much,” says Pauline Molloy, who has had to battle for every support and service her son Shane has received over the past 18 years.

“It shows us that they don’t understand what people are going through or the damage that one bad decision can make to people’s lives. We thought that things were improving in terms of our situation being understood. But this just shows you — they don’t understand at all.”