Foster home scandal: Neglect of rights of vulnerable

Ireland’s failure to ratify the UN convention on persons with disability eight years after signing it, is a damning indictment of this country. 

That is true of the Fine Gael- Labour government just replaced and the previous Fianna Fáil-Green administration, four political parties guilty of shamefully neglecting the rights of the most vulnerable.

While charities raise money to protect them against discrimination and Commissioner Emily Logan ensures their rights of equality are properly guarded, public opinion was recently moved to anger over the scandal which surrounded a HSE plan to spend €35m destined for use in mental healthcare, elsewhere in the system, reduced to €12m by Minister Varadkar after a Cabinet row.