Another intellectual disabled person & family failed by the 🇮🇪 state. @merrionstreet signed #UNCRPD optional protocol last year. Still no independent living plan for disabled adults. @TomClonan @InclusionIre @SimonHarrisTD @DeptHousingIRL @HSELive

Well done to Aoife and her parents Tony and Susan for highlighting the appalling state failure in not providing long term support adults with disabilities. Tony and Susan are the founders of #BeforeWeDie campaign

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@BrigidLaffan @CliffTaylorIT @IFAmedia @IrishTimes I disagree Brigid and Cliff. I think you forget the context of @Bordbia I first encountered this issue back in 2010. I bought eggs in Ireland covered in Irish flags and carrying “Bord Bia approved” branding with the national flag. Like most consumers, I assumed they were produced

Could My Friends Here Please Share This Urgent Message Far And Wide! (All Ireland!)

@welfare_ie @GovIE @daracalleary Response from @welfare_ie is that employees who were paying into a pension fund via payroll in 2025, a different Tax Year, will be excluded from My Future Fund by the State for 12 months! @fiannafailparty @FineGael @sinnfeinireland @AontuIE @labour @SocDems

The Price of Denial: Early Warnings, Arrogant Dismissal, and the Lingering Cost of COVID's Immune Legacy There have been a recent number of articles framing the immune harm from Covid as a new insight. While I am pleased this has entered the mainstream, I am afraid it is too

Seems that employees can only contribute to one pension plan through payroll. If an employee contributes to a PRSA through payroll they will not be able to register for My Future Fund from 1st January. Excluded or should employee be able to choose! @welfare_ie @daracalleary

Seems that employees can only contribute to one pension plan through payroll. If an employee contributes to a PRSA through payroll they will not be able to register for My Future Fund from 1st January. Excluded or should employee be able to choose! @welfare_ie @daracalleary

You cannot get flu from the flu shot. I would expect a paramedic to know that. What's his game?

When children’s services are failing, the people in charge don’t hang around to face the consequences. They move. They sidestep. They land in private healthcare or another comfortable post, carrying the same CV and the same decisions that helped create the damage. And yes, we

Family carers provide 19 million hours of unpaid care every week saving the state €20 billion per year. The role family carers play in Ireland is invaluable, but yet they rarely get the recognition they deserve. Behind closed doors, family carers make daily sacrifices – putting

I really hope all those people who tried and continue to try to block the vaccine are paying attention.

BREAKING NEWS! My Disability Rights Bill 2023 https://t.co/g5woZlhWdZ Passed ALL Of Its Stages in Seanad This Week -This Bill Brings Ireland Into Line With The EU & For The First Time In Ireland -Gives #Disabled Citizens Absolute Legal Right To Supports, Therapies PAs & Housing✊

Concern over rise in number of private residential centres for people living with intellectual disability @ciananbrennan New figures from the HSE show that some 1,353 people with intellectual disabilities are currently being cared for in their residential placements by private,

Parents should not spend their final years terrified about where their adult child with a disability will live. This crisis is the result of Government neglect. We need a national plan for secure, local residential support.

Carers speak out on the reality of caring for a parent. “There should be somewhere that people like my mother can go and interact with others, have the craic, play the piano or just have some company other than mine – I don’t want a pat on the back or an extra tenner from the

A nurse, who’s just completed a 2 yr part time ACP…. now wants to assess kids with acute conditions in GP independently She admits she has NO PAEDIATRIC TRAINING AT ALL! And is asking whether she can manage acute kids in GP….by just doing an online module in paeds??!!

Provision for pets BUT not for wheelchair users – IWA raises serious concerns over Government's new housing plan, unveiled yesterday, which lacks specific, mandated provisions for wheelchair users in all new developments. Read response in full. ⬇️ https://t.co/kJIaSHV17B

If we want sustainable organisational change, which group is more important? (a) People who are active in response to the change (even if they are resistant); or (b) People who accept the change? Newly published research suggests (a); it is more important to get people active in

The most important thing about this amazing Paris transformation is how fast it happened —how fast people on bikes “appeared” —once streets were transformed. You can’t write this off as “#Paris was always this way,” because it wasn’t. It took leadership. https://t.co/DJHxcn13Zr