Families unaware disabled adults put on housing list

The families of profoundly disabled adults whose names were put on a council housing list two years ago have spoken of their shock at the move.

It emerged yesterday that the names of adults, all of them residents of St Mary of the Angels in Beaufort, a residential centre for the profoundly disabled, have been on the council waiting list in Kerry for more than two years — and their families knew nothing about it.

Controversy is surrounding plans which only emerged in recent weeks to decongregate the 76-resident facility near Killarney, in line with the national policy for community living for all persons.