A year after troika passed it on, Cecilia still awaits Kenny reply to cuts letter

The grandmother of a toddler with Down’s syndrome has been waiting a year for a response from the Taoiseach and three government ministers to correspondence about disability cuts referred to them on her behalf by the troika.

Cecilia Kehoe from Kildare sent Christmas cards to the main troika decision- makers last year with the words “Season’s Greetings” and an account of how cuts announced in the Dec 2012 budget — particularly to the respite care allowance — would affect her family.

“I wanted to know why such an unconscionable act of penalising the most vulnerable in our society could be at the behest of the troika; as the Government consistently suggested, and continues to intimate to the public...” she told the Irish Examiner.