While waiting for the publication of the report of the Review Group into Mobility Allowance and Motorised Transport Grant (5,000 people with disabilities are going to lose up to 20% of their income at the end of this month and few seem to care) thoughts also are not far away from very important legislation for [...]
FG’s Digital Media team have issued advice to TD’s regarding taking social media criticism on the chin. Bizarrely though we are now of course all looking for FG’s #tcot (Top conservative on t’nternet). Does this mean Karl Rove is busy in FG HQ? Or have they been paying the yanks again for spoofery? We’ll have [...]
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Hello 2013. The laptop has been turned off since December 21. It still works and I have remembered how to type! I’ve been saying a lot to myself in my head in the weeks that have passed. It’s better staying there than here to be honest. However do go read DoctorFive on Cedar Lounge for [...]
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Enda Kenny’s weekly email message to Fine Gael members includes this paragraph on the cabinet decision on legislating for X. The aim of Government here is to include clarity and legal certainty in relation to determining whether a termination of pregnancy is permissible in cases where there is a real and substantial risk to the [...]
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The debate over the budget both in Leinster House and the media has continued the oppression and invisibility of people with disabilities and older people who require care and support in Irish society. Today in the defence of the cut to Respite Care grant for those caring for people with disabilities and older people Minister [...]
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The Department of Health and it’s ministerial team held a press conference after the budget yesterday to talk about the budget and the estimates for health expenditure in 2013. I am surprised at the lack of focus on the very serious problems emerging from the Department or indeed being hidden from view. Minister for State with [...]
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Labour party members received an email from Eamon Gilmore this afternoon. Subject is ‘a bad week’, it appears to be an attempt to soothe concerned/upset members. He’s been busy while away in New York. I doubt Róisín Shortall will be that impressed. Dear , REGRET AT ROISIN’S RESIGNATION * The resignation of Roisin Shortall has [...]
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It has been a busy month. When the Paralympics began I like many other people with disabilities wondered what the impact would be on the attitudes of the general public, primarily whether messages of rights and equality and respect would outweigh expressions of pity and sympathy. I didn’t know that during the Paralympics in Ireland [...]
The long awaited publication of the wording for the Children’s Rights Referendum has been widely welcomed. Since the publication I have been listening to experts and the Minister for Children discuss the merits of the proposal. I do hope in the coming weeks that some discussion will be on the care system, the lack of [...]
Minister for Health, James Reilly wrote to members of Fine Gael today. I thought you might be interested to see the contents. A winter of discontent ahead, how patients are not going to suffer when all agency staff are cut I don’t know. Embargoes on recruitment have already decimated many services. And the waiting time [...]
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