Fight to secure Primary Medical Certificates making children prisoners in their own homes

The fight for two women to secure Primary Medical Certificates for their children shows that even as the process restarts, questions remain

Amanda Reeves and her daughter Alyssa, 4, who received their Primary Medical Certificate last week as a result of the Supreme Court's reccomendation earlier this year. Photograph Moya Nolan

Margaret Lennon is brutally frank about it all. 

"What has happened is effectively my child has been made a prisoner in the home," she says, "denied any meaningful interaction with the outside world because the medical condition prevents the child from walking any distance, so on a good day the child can get to the car and that's it."