Funding cut threatens future of service for Kerry adults with intellectual disabilities

“We are making this an election issue. We will not tolerate the cuts. We simply can’t. Already the service is not sufficient."

A cut of tens of thousands of euro to one of the country’s oldest services for adults with intellectual disability, The Kerry Parents and Friends, may put an end to the already limited respite facility in the county.

Parents and representatives have spoken of their dismay at the HSE decision, announced just before the election, to cut adult intellectual disability budgets.