Inclusion Ireland in the Media
- 2009
Independent TDs urged to vote down welfare cuts
The comment was echoed by Inclusion Ireland, who urged TDs to reject the cuts outlined in the budget as they would force those already suffering with disabilities further into the margins...READ MORE |
Disability authority insists funding will be cut
A number of groups representing people with disabilities have criticised the cuts as an “attack on the direct living standards and the quality of life of people with disabilities”. Inclusion Ireland, a coalition of disability groups, says the cuts undermine the Government’s pledge in the lead-up to the Budget to protect the most vulnerable...READ MORE |
4.1% welfare cuts ‘will push youth abroad’
Social welfare cuts also affect those on disability payments. Inclusion Ireland chief executive Deirdre Carroll claiming: "This leaves people with an intellectual disability and autism with barely pittance to spend"...READ MORE |
Concern at use of disability funding
Inclusion Ireland has said many of its members are questioning where the upwards of €200 million in additional funds allocated to disability since 2006 has been spent...READ MORE |
Medical Decisions discussion on Outside the Box
CLICK HERE to listen to Deirdre Carroll and Sarah Lennon from Inclusion Ireland as well as self advocates and parents, discuss legal issues around people with an intellectual disability making medical decisions. |
Capacity discussion on Outside the Box
CLICK HERE to listen to Sarah Lennon, Frieda Finlay, Ray Burke and Michael Bach discuss the need for new capacity legislation |
Fergus Finlay's segment on Drivetime
CLICK HERE (scroll over to 25 minutes) to listen to Fergus Finlay's Drivtime segment on Monday 19th October |
Call to directly fund people with intellectual disabilities
Click here to watch RTÉ Six One News Report on a joint press conference from Inclusion Ireland, the National Federation of Voluntary Bodies, the National Parents and Siblings Alliance, Irish Autism Action and Down Syndrome Ireland...READ MORE |
Disability services cuts to cost 'millions'
Inclusion Ireland, the national association for people with an intellectual disability, said that the cost of putting someone in long-term residential care was €80,000 a year, a figure that could be avoided in many cases if proper home and educational supports were introduced at an early age...READ MORE |
Medical & Money Decisions
CLICK HERE (scroll over to 48 minutes, 30 seconds), to listen to Inclusion Ireland's Frieda Finlay and Sarah Lennon discuss two Inclusion Ireland booklets, 'Making Decisions About Money' and 'Making Medical Decisions' |
Time for action over inspections
It is time for Minster Andrews and his fellow Health Ministers Mary Harney and John Moloney, to lead the way by injecting a sense of urgency around the implementation of independent inspection of children’s and adult services...READ MORE |
A disturbing way to treat people
Deirdre Carroll of Inclusion Ireland, an organisation representing people with intellectual disabilities and their families, says the level of neglect in some cases is shocking...READ MORE |
Hundreds of disabled in unsuitable institutions
Deirdre Carroll of Inclusion Ireland, which represents people with disabilities and their families, said: “It is simply not good enough that Government policy can state something so serious is unacceptable, and 25 years later it is still happening.”...READ MORE |
Learning from a legacy
Groups such as Inclusion Ireland warn these cuts are counterproductive and would cost the State much more in missing out on the opportunity to help maximise the potential of disabled children...READ MORE |
Concern over closure of sheltered workshops
Inclusion Ireland, the body which represents people with intellectual disabilities, said it is getting numerous calls from “concerned and distressed” parents of people with whose workshops have been closed...READ MORE |
Over 170 complaints to HSE on care homes
Deirdre Carroll, chief executive of Inclusion Ireland, an umbrella group representing people with intellectual disabilities, says reports of neglect and abuse have been made to its organisation before...READ MORE |
Inspecting disability centres - letters
I would like to support Deirdre Carroll’s call (Opinion, June 11th) for the Government to set up inspection for all services for people with disabilities at once – even if, to begin with, this is on a minimal scale...READ MORE |
| Law on checking residential disability services essential
Institutional care does not belong to a different era, as the Ryan report stated, as thousands of people with disabilities still live in such care, writes Deirdre Carroll...READ MORE |
| Over €100 million reserved for health projects unspent
Inclusion Ireland, which represents people with intellectual disabilities, says delays in introducing care standards and new day services are affecting the quality of life of hundreds of clients and their families...READ MORE |
Need for standards in light of Ryan Report
CLICK HERE to listen to Deirdre Carroll, CEO of Inclusion Ireland, discuss the need for standards in disability services following the publication of the Ryan Report, on RTÉ Radio One's This Week programme. |
Lack of inspections leave thousands in care vulnerable to abuse
Inclusion Ireland, an umbrella group representing people with intellectual disabilities, yesterday called on the Government to revisit its decision and urgently...READ MORE |
State has no funds for disabled standards
Inclusion Ireland, an umbrella group representing people with intellectual disabilities, welcomed the new standards but said the failure to place them on a statutory footing means poor services will continue to operate...READ MORE |
Anger at 'eight-month' abuse probe report that took eight years
Inclusion Ireland said the delay was unacceptable and had added to the pain and suffering of those abused...READ MORE |
Whistleblower says report fails to hold anyone accountable
Inclusion Ireland, the support group for families of people with disabilities, said abuse detailed in the report could happen again as there was no independent inspection and regulation of services for people with learning disabilities...READ MORE |
Lack of Standards and Inspection
CLICK HERE to listen to Deirdre Carroll, CEO of Inclusion Ireland, discuss the lack of independent regulation and inspection of services on RTÉ Radio One's Morning Ireland. |
| Inclusion Ireland intend to Fight Cutbacks
Parents are not only fearful that promised new services will never materialise, but that their existing services will be cut. ...READ MORE |
Minister urged not to target old or ill with cuts
The association protecting the disabled, Inclusion Ireland, also warned against further cuts to services...READ MORE |
Home for disabled to open in Monaghan
CLICK HERE to read and view the RTÉ television news item on a home for people with a disability in Monaghan, which has lain idle for 18 months. The segment was filmed during Inclusion Ireland's AGM in Monaghan. |
Pat Kenny discusses Relationships and People with an Intellectual Disability
CLICK HERE to listen to Inclusion Ireland Advocacy Officer Áine Ní Aileagáin and Director Frieda Finlay discuss people with an intellectual disability and relationships on the RTÉ Radio One programme 'Today with Pat Kenny'. |
Call for Mental Capacity Bill to break with the past
Deirdre Carroll of Inclusion Ireland said her organisation welcomed the proposed Bill, but was concerned about its implicit paternalism. From the outset everything should be done to establish the need for assisted decision-making...READ MORE |
O'Keeffe's 'betrayal of vulnerable' as 128 special-needs classes axed
Inclusion Ireland, which is the National Association for People with an Intellectual Disability, said it was shocked and outraged by the decision...READ MORE |
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