Care system for adult children with disabilities after parents die 'cruel and heartless', Dáil committee told

Tony Murray, with his wife Susan and their 42-year-old daughter Aoife, who has an intellectual disability and is cared for full-time by her parents. Picture: Moya Nolan

The uncertainty facing aging parents of children with disabilities “is not a dark cloud, it is a black hole”, an Oireachtas committee has heard.

A meeting of the Disabilities Committee heard from advocacy bodies and parents of adult children with disabilities, who described the current system of residential place allocation to those children as being “cruel” and “bonkers”.