Irish Examiner view: State’s ongoing failure a scandal

Disabled driving

Terms like 'shameful, unfair, unacceptable' combine to offer a scathing indictment of the State’s ongoing failure to help those with disabilities. Picture: Larry Cummins

If rhetoric is a consideration elsewhere in this section, in the context of retrofitting homes, it is no less important when considering the 2022 report of Ombudsman Ger Deering, which was published this week.

In assessing the performance of various State agencies and associated bodies the Ombudsman’s office must make assessments of the efficiency and capabilities of those organisations, and the rhetoric from that office this week was blunt regarding the lack of access to personal transport supports for people with disabilities.