Let’s have disability bill before the elections

THERE is still no sign of the infamous disability bill from the Government.

After the last bill failed so dismally in 2001 we were promised by the Taoiseach that we would have a rights-based measure by May 2003.

We believe that the Government hasn’t got the courage to publish the bill before the local elections. We have had several commitments from this Government going back to 1997 that they would fully implement the commission report on people with disabilities called A Strategy for Equality.