Disabled people are denied basic rights
As the father of a son with autism I congratulate them wholeheartedly.
Those elected to govern have failed my family, and they have failed the people of Ireland. The document that the FF/PD coalition have chosen to present totally removes any and all rights to those who need them most.
Why do those with disabilities need rights? Because the powers that be have chosen to make the disabled and their families into, perhaps, the most oppressed people in Europe.
I know because my family, and in particular my 11-year-old boy, have seen nothing but the worst of callous, self-serving and uncaring people who, it seems, have very little to do in the way of work except keep themselves in the Dáil and, if the cameras are to be believed, don’t even turn up for that.
However, they can waste countless millions on useless electronic voting machines and vast overspends on a road network that should have been completed 40 years ago - and that doesn’t include the millions they spend on themselves.
For how much longer must the disabled be persecuted?
Which of us voted to have our rights, our dignity, our very humanity taken from us?
Not I.
Noel Leahy
Knockbrack
Abbeyfeale
Co Limerick
