Disabled people now need third-level rights
In its present form the bill will take us back in time.
Like others, I feel the bill is good and is badly needed, but it has the potential to be very bureaucratic if enacted in its present form.
The bill is not rights-based.
As a parent of a daughter with a profound intellectual disability (now 37 years) I have observed, in education in particular, how parent vision and the courts have enormously affected the quality of our people with intellectual disability, ie, the O’Hanlon judgement granted education up to 14 years of age in the Paul O’Donoghue case; the Jamie Synott judgement confirmed education to 18 years of age.
We now need a similar judgement for third-level education for over-18s.
I am tired of looking for some political group who will act on the real fears we parents and carers have over the Disability Bill. Either way, it will alter our lives forever.
Grace O’Leary
Carrigdubh
Hazelwood
Sligo
