Disability rights – No excuse for delay of legislation

It is remarkable that those lobbying for the rights of people with disabilities in this country have faced an unrelenting struggle with successive governments, and continue to do so with the current administration.

For example, yesterday Mr Justice Feargus Flood and the members of the Commission on the Status of People with Disabilities met in Dublin to discuss the Government’s delay in publishing satisfactory disability legislation.

It is over ten years since the Commission was established by the then Minister of Equality and Law Reform Mervyn Taylor.