Liam Quaide: People with intellectual disabilities have the right to a home

Among the State’s most serious failings is the crisis that thousands of people with an intellectual disability and their families are caught up in — an absence of any plan for future living arrangements.

A home is not a vacant bed found when everything else has collapsed. It means choice, belonging, continuity of relationships and support; living in your own community, close to the people and places that give your life meaning.

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