State is still robbing nursing home residents

WITH a stealth matching their deplorable behaviour over the previous 30 years, the politicians in Dáil Éireann have reintroduced the cruel practice of deducting 80% of their social welfare entitlement from the residents of long-stay community hospitals/nursing homes.

Once more those who struggled through the tough years to create the bountiful tiger are to be left bereft of all but a sorrowful pittance.

The hypocritical platitudes about respecting the independence of the elderly are a true measure of the integrity of all those who voted to belittle the aged.