Dear Sir... Readers' Views (20/12/16)

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State is to blame for failings on disabled care

The trial is over. There was never going to be any other verdict. Disabled people In Ireland don’t ‘matter’ to this government or previous governments. Emily was a child abandoned by the state. The discourse of “carer fatigue, stress, pressure”, posits disabled children and adults as automatically a burden on their families and on the state. But that is not the correct analysis.