Cara Darmody: The law breakers are at the Cabinet table

Cara Darmody is only 14, but she's been promised by three different taoisigh they would fix issues with assessments of needs. All three have failed dramatically, she says

Disability campaigner Cara Darmody at a 50-hour protest against the backlog in the assessment of needs system outside Leinster House, Dublin, last month.

Let’s cut straight to the chase in this opinion piece — I’m here today to call out the blatant assessments of needs law-breaking by the Taoiseach and the Government! Three different taoisigh have made promises to me to fix this issue, and all have dramatically failed.

I’m the 14-year old disability rights campaigner who performed a 50-hour protest on the dirty street outside Leinster House three weeks ago, and I’m the campaigner who was credited by the previous taoiseach for the allocation of €10m of Government funding to what he calls "Cara’s fund".