A cruel measure carers save the State 20billion euros The Irish Government must remove taxation from carers and abolish the means test with a living wage for all carers and people with disabilities.
Next months budget must deliver for people with disabilities and carers with a basic living wage without means testing .
The failure of the Irish Government to provide AON for nearly 15,00- is shameful and unacceptable future generations will look back on this failure and wonder how this was allowed to happen .
We demand the creation of a National Safeguarding System with real time tracking of children in care .
Parents must lead the proposed change in the AON system the HSE have failed to deliver and this role must be taken away from them
While Ministers Norma Foley and Emer Higgins repeatedly used phrases like “faster”, “more efficient”, and “timelier”, they did not provide the only thing that matters to families who have already waited years—certainty. Certainty about when their child will actually be assessed. Certainty about who will carry out those assessments. Certainty that the assessment will lead to real, tangible supports. And certainty that Ireland has finally decided to stop sacrificing children to bureaucracy, understaffing and political hesitation.