If you are thinking about not voting – watch Dan talk about the election and voting for people with disabilities. Congratulations to Sunbeam Media and everyone involved. If you know someone with a disability who is registered to vote see what you can do to help them vote on February 25th if they are not [...]
Fine Gael published their manifesto today and as part of my review of the party’s manifestos here is the section on disability. (Pg. 33) 8. Disability Fine Gael will ensure that the quality of life for people with disabilities is enhanced and that resources allocated reach the people who need them. To achieve this, we [...]
The Disability invisibility cloak is being lifted on the General Election. Now lets see if the parties and their representatives can talk about it! The Labour Party launched their manifesto today The section on Disability A fair deal for people with disabilities Labour remains committed to an approach to disability in Ireland based on rights, [...]
There is a danger when we do get to the ‘social’ aspects of the campaign that the issue of rights and position of people who are minorities or oppressed and disadvantaged in our society will be reduced to economic units. A danger? In fact it’s a sure cert, because for the past few years the [...]
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While we think we know the cuts to come because of the leaks and the four year plan there will be many cuts not announced in the budget speech but in documents released shortly afterwards by government departments. I will be having a look out for these to keep an eye on the seemingly smaller [...]
Blanchardstown Centre for Independent Living are producing a programme on disability called Access all Areas on Phoenix FM which is broadcast live on 92.5FM on Wednesday nights at 8.30pm. Episodes are also being podcast and you can access the podcasts here (See Access all Areas on the page of programmes) The content is of interest [...]
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Update: The Abbey released a statement this evening in response to this post and other queries regarding access to the Peacock and the forthcoming productions. A play opens next week in Dublin – a piece of documentary theatre on the Ryan Report on abuse in institutions. Written by Mary Raftery, No Escape is the first [...]
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Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Mary Hanafin, was responding to the committee stage of the Social Welfare Bill (No. 2) in the Dáil today – (after Gogartygate). The bill provides for the cuts in social welfare of 4.1% for all social welfare payments for those under 65 and a cut in childnd I benefit. [...]
The vote on the Social Welfare cuts in #budget10 is taking place tomorrow so that TD’s don’t have to get it in the neck when they go home at the weekend. I assume whatever happens with the vote that we might see a new version of this video and that the campaign won’t die down. [...]
Tags:Disability·Welfare
Tonight I’ve been delving into the book of estimates released today in addition to the budget which I was tweeting throughout the day. Isn’t it just miraculous when lots of agencies that deal with peoples lives and provide services directly to people are having their budgets slashed that one – the National Disability Authority (NDA) [...]
Tags:Disability·Issues and Rights·Local government·National Disability Authority
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