Letters to the Editor: A ‘shame and humiliation’ against people with disabilities

A disability minister is needed, to work on a rights-based platform for services, says one reader, while another letter-writer says the provision of transport police must be a Government priority

Equality Not Care should remain 'at the forefront of plans for disabled and older people'. File picture

Fergus Finlay rightly said on Prime Time this week that the Government programme for disability was the worst piece of writing ever seen in a document on disability plans from a new government.

After the referendum campaign, we thought the Government might have understood our claim in the Equality Not Care group for “rights not charity” and “rights not care”.