Disabled people sent to back of the queue

OVER 300 delegates recently attended the annual general meeting of the National Association for the Mentally Handicapped of Ireland (Namhi — the national representative body promoting the rights of people with intellectual disability) in Dundalk.

The meeting called on the Government to produce the long-awaited disability bill.

In February 2002, the last government withdrew the disability bill in an unprecedented move to alleviate the anger of people with disabilities over its restrictive measures.