A disabled woman challenges the 'status quo' in Ireland. This blog was started to highlight inequality, abuse and injustice in the lives of disabled people. The wooden spoon was given to me when I graduated (PhD) as I'm known to 'stir up' and get things done. I'm still stirring from my wheelchair...Justice for disabled people demands we 'stir-up' complacency, injustice, inequality lack of services, and scapegoating . Disabled people deserve rights not charity! "Nothing about me without me!"
About Me
- Dr Margaret Kennedy
- A campaigner against Clergy sexual Abuse, Disablity Inequality & abuse, Housing Scandal for disabled people, HSE inadequacies
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Equality Authority - Multiple Disadvantage in Ireland - An equality Analysis of Census 2006
Equality Authority - Multiple Disadvantage in Ireland - An equality Analysis of Census 2006
this report published this year but based on 2006 census
this report published this year but based on 2006 census
Slow progress in mental health service as tide goes out on Victorian-era hospitals - The Irish Times - Sat, Dec 29, 2012
Slow progress in mental health service as tide goes out on Victorian-era hospitals - The Irish Times - Sat, Dec 29, 2012
the victorian hospitals may be going but not the victorian attitudes
the victorian hospitals may be going but not the victorian attitudes
Backlash of the Paralympians: Athletes claim double standards in sport honours - Home News - UK - The Independent
Backlash of the Paralympians: Athletes claim double standards in sport honours - Home News - UK - The Independent
are we surprised...no! Tanni-gray does not represent ALL disabled people! i find her irritating to say the least!
are we surprised...no! Tanni-gray does not represent ALL disabled people! i find her irritating to say the least!
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Minister worried by numbers on disability - The Irish Times - Mon, Dec 24, 2012
Minister worried by numbers on disability - The Irish Times - Mon, Dec 24, 2012
we disabled people should be worried. Ireland always copies the UK and in the UK the knives are out politically against disabled people. we have to see these 'attacks' as discrimination with a global political message we are scroungers and wasters! hitlers 'useless eaters' (us) are seen as destrygoats in a recessionary climate. we should fight back....strongly
we disabled people should be worried. Ireland always copies the UK and in the UK the knives are out politically against disabled people. we have to see these 'attacks' as discrimination with a global political message we are scroungers and wasters! hitlers 'useless eaters' (us) are seen as destrygoats in a recessionary climate. we should fight back....strongly
Five nurses struck off by High Court - The Irish Times - Mon, Dec 24, 2012
Five nurses struck off by High Court - The Irish Times - Mon, Dec 24, 2012
it would be interesting to know what sort of hospitals care situations these nurses were in. bet it was the learning disability or elderly care!
it would be interesting to know what sort of hospitals care situations these nurses were in. bet it was the learning disability or elderly care!
Friday, December 21, 2012
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Tenants on disability to pay council more rent - The Irish Times - Thu, Dec 20, 2012
Tenants on disability to pay council more rent - The Irish Times - Thu, Dec 20, 2012
This is outrageous. 'The Councillors were told the council’s housing rent scheme had disregarded “a subsidiary earner’s income from disability allowance” when calculating rent households should pay'. It seems DLRCC don't yet understand that disability allowance is NOT an EXTRA allowance, it defrays the EXTRA costs in being disabled. This is NOT extra cash!
OUTRAGEOUS
This is outrageous. 'The Councillors were told the council’s housing rent scheme had disregarded “a subsidiary earner’s income from disability allowance” when calculating rent households should pay'. It seems DLRCC don't yet understand that disability allowance is NOT an EXTRA allowance, it defrays the EXTRA costs in being disabled. This is NOT extra cash!
OUTRAGEOUS
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Let’s stop scaring parents of autistic kids | BabyCenter Blog
Let’s stop scaring parents of autistic kids | BabyCenter Blog
about the american man who killed the schoolchildren and teachers
about the american man who killed the schoolchildren and teachers
MP challenges Cameron over disability benefits | Tyne Tees - ITV News
MP challenges Cameron over disability benefits | Tyne Tees - ITV News
We need to do the same here in Ireland. Who is really speaking for us?
We need to do the same here in Ireland. Who is really speaking for us?
Friday, December 14, 2012
More than 300,000 disabled people to have benefits cut says Esther McVey - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
More than 300,000 disabled people to have benefits cut says Esther McVey - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
what does this young woman know about disability. It proves beyond doubt that the government are on a cost cutting exercise NOT based on needs. It is also suggesting that those who are on DLA 330,000 should never have had it therefore back on the 'scroungers' tack. Outrageous.
what does this young woman know about disability. It proves beyond doubt that the government are on a cost cutting exercise NOT based on needs. It is also suggesting that those who are on DLA 330,000 should never have had it therefore back on the 'scroungers' tack. Outrageous.
Column: Why am I made to feel like a scrounger? · TheJournal.ie
Column: Why am I made to feel like a scrounger? · TheJournal.ie
ditto...i know the feeling. only in my case its made to feel a trouble maker if i ask for help or complain about not getting it. service providers in Ireland have one useful stratedgy don't ring Margaret back if she calls. Don't reply to official complaints. I think even receptionists are briefed not to put calls through to relevant people.
ditto...i know the feeling. only in my case its made to feel a trouble maker if i ask for help or complain about not getting it. service providers in Ireland have one useful stratedgy don't ring Margaret back if she calls. Don't reply to official complaints. I think even receptionists are briefed not to put calls through to relevant people.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Hardest Hit comments on 13 December 2012 Personal Independence Payment (PIP) announcement | The Hardest Hit
Hardest Hit comments on 13 December 2012 Personal Independence Payment (PIP) announcement | The Hardest Hit
I get this benefit. Don't yet know whether I'll be affected. It's really scary. Protest...please protest.
I get this benefit. Don't yet know whether I'll be affected. It's really scary. Protest...please protest.
Disabled man takes government to court over benefit test | Society | The Guardian
Disabled man takes government to court over benefit test | Society | The Guardian
We need to start taking legal action in Ireland.
We need to start taking legal action in Ireland.
awnyah todaysay: budget blah and woolly hats
awnyah todaysay: budget blah and woolly hats
a tragic but true reflection on how poor disabled , sick and vulnerable people are living lives of utter misery here in Ireland. And I see the UK is similar and America probably even worse. Why are people ALREADY compromised physically, emotionally and psychologically through no fault of our own. We are hammered by this Government. and no one seems to care!
a tragic but true reflection on how poor disabled , sick and vulnerable people are living lives of utter misery here in Ireland. And I see the UK is similar and America probably even worse. Why are people ALREADY compromised physically, emotionally and psychologically through no fault of our own. We are hammered by this Government. and no one seems to care!
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Winterbourne View: 50 years of broken promises | Disability News Service
Winterbourne View: 50 years of broken promises | Disability News Service
a terrible place where learning disabled people were abuse (UK) but Ireland had it's scandal in the abuse of learning disabled people in the Brothers of Charity Galway. Alan Shatter, kathleen Lynch when in opposition fought for stutory public inquiry but now in Gov they haven't done a thing. so as usual our learning disabled brothers and sisters just get forgotten
a terrible place where learning disabled people were abuse (UK) but Ireland had it's scandal in the abuse of learning disabled people in the Brothers of Charity Galway. Alan Shatter, kathleen Lynch when in opposition fought for stutory public inquiry but now in Gov they haven't done a thing. so as usual our learning disabled brothers and sisters just get forgotten
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
President Higgins - ireland on our 'international Reputation ..in human rights?!
President Michael D Higgins has described Ireland’s election to the United Nation’s body for human rights as “an honour”.
Higgins said the decision to give Ireland a seat on the UN’s Human Rights Council (UNHRC) was a strong endorsement of Ireland’s international reputation. This I find astounding. What international reputation in 'human rights' would President Higgins be referring to?
In relation to the 'Convention On The Rights of Persons with Disabilities' Ireland has still not ratified the international rights instrument intended to protect persons with disabilities. Parties in the convention are required to 'promote, protect, and ensure the full enjoyment of human rights by persons with disabilities and ensure that they enjoy full equality under the law. The text was adopted by the United Nations General assembly on 13th December 2006 and opened for signatures on 30th March 2007. It came into force on 3rd May 2008. As of December 2012, it has 154 signatures and 126 parties, including the European Union, Ireland is absent.
Furthermore Ireland still retains laws describing Learning disabled people as 'lunatics' and has just written a budget far removed from ensuring disabled people have 'full enjoyment of human rights' and 'ensure that they enjoy full equality under the law'. On the contrary this government has plunged disabled and sick people, and elderly who are largely disabled, into utter despair, poverty, cold and hungry with little or no support services.
It would now seem obvious to all that this Government has NOT ratified the 'Convention on the Rights of Disabled People' precisely because they wanted the ability to cut services in this sector which might then be in breach of the ratified convention.
Far from having an 'international' reputation Ireland has an absymal reputation in care for vulnerable and disabled persons. President Higgins would be wise to learn of what the Convention on the Rights of Disabled People' actually asks of Government and then to assess if we, indeed, have ANY good reputation in this area.
Higgins said the decision to give Ireland a seat on the UN’s Human Rights Council (UNHRC) was a strong endorsement of Ireland’s international reputation. This I find astounding. What international reputation in 'human rights' would President Higgins be referring to?
In relation to the 'Convention On The Rights of Persons with Disabilities' Ireland has still not ratified the international rights instrument intended to protect persons with disabilities. Parties in the convention are required to 'promote, protect, and ensure the full enjoyment of human rights by persons with disabilities and ensure that they enjoy full equality under the law. The text was adopted by the United Nations General assembly on 13th December 2006 and opened for signatures on 30th March 2007. It came into force on 3rd May 2008. As of December 2012, it has 154 signatures and 126 parties, including the European Union, Ireland is absent.
Furthermore Ireland still retains laws describing Learning disabled people as 'lunatics' and has just written a budget far removed from ensuring disabled people have 'full enjoyment of human rights' and 'ensure that they enjoy full equality under the law'. On the contrary this government has plunged disabled and sick people, and elderly who are largely disabled, into utter despair, poverty, cold and hungry with little or no support services.
It would now seem obvious to all that this Government has NOT ratified the 'Convention on the Rights of Disabled People' precisely because they wanted the ability to cut services in this sector which might then be in breach of the ratified convention.
Far from having an 'international' reputation Ireland has an absymal reputation in care for vulnerable and disabled persons. President Higgins would be wise to learn of what the Convention on the Rights of Disabled People' actually asks of Government and then to assess if we, indeed, have ANY good reputation in this area.
Home | Parkinsons.ie | Parkinson's Association of Ireland
Home | Parkinsons.ie | Parkinson's Association of Ireland
another organisation worried about the budget
another organisation worried about the budget
Monday, December 10, 2012
English Heritage reveals a time and a place for disability history - About Access News
English Heritage reveals a time and a place for disability history - About Access News
interesting - wonder if Ireland is doing anything on disability history
interesting - wonder if Ireland is doing anything on disability history
Coalition packs equality duty review with friendly faces; Budget benefit cuts are ‘serious threat’ to independence; ODI silence; Anger over Workfare Scheme; English Heri
Budget benefit cuts are ‘serious threat’ to independence (posted 07.12.12)
Budget benefit cuts are ‘serious threat’ to independence (posted 07.12.12)
Now they are targetting disabled people in the UK. We have to fight back this new 21st Centary attack against disabled people sweeping Europe
Now they are targetting disabled people in the UK. We have to fight back this new 21st Centary attack against disabled people sweeping Europe
Irish Left Review | Disability Rights, Not Charity
Irish Left Review | Disability Rights, Not Charity
i'm in the pink hat with my twin,. we carry red scissors..
i'm in the pink hat with my twin,. we carry red scissors..
Your Voice Your Choice 2012
Your Voice Your Choice 2012
I was there and I cannot see anything new here that hasn't been said a hundred times before. Such a waste of money, time energy. Collecting our views is a sop to proving proper services. that's what we need, not a talking shop.
nothing will come out of this ...NOTHING.
I fail to see how Minister Kathleen Lynch protected disabled people in this 2013 budget so this report just sticks in my gullet.
I was there and I cannot see anything new here that hasn't been said a hundred times before. Such a waste of money, time energy. Collecting our views is a sop to proving proper services. that's what we need, not a talking shop.
nothing will come out of this ...NOTHING.
I fail to see how Minister Kathleen Lynch protected disabled people in this 2013 budget so this report just sticks in my gullet.
Who are you calling a Lunatic? | Inclusion Ireland
Who are you calling a Lunatic? | Inclusion Ireland
yep our laws are dickensian...you couldn't make it up!
yep our laws are dickensian...you couldn't make it up!
BBC News - Have attitudes to disability changed?
BBC News - Have attitudes to disability changed? since the paralympics.
this might be useful for people in Ireland to reflect on
this might be useful for people in Ireland to reflect on
Persons with disabilities demand equal rights, representation | New Europe
Persons with disabilities demand equal rights, representation | New Europe
Since Ireland has not ratfied the UN convention on disabled people's rights it looks like this country won't be sending ANY reps to the EU.
I believe we are represented by a disability organisation run largely by non-disabled people. We want to represent OURSELVES! At Least I do!
Since Ireland has not ratfied the UN convention on disabled people's rights it looks like this country won't be sending ANY reps to the EU.
I believe we are represented by a disability organisation run largely by non-disabled people. We want to represent OURSELVES! At Least I do!
Sunday, December 9, 2012
on my facebook page today - disgrace ireland
GARDAI CALLED TO LONE CARER WITH PLACARD.
E-mail sent to Michael McCarthy TD...read and be very afraid !
Dear Michael,
as the constant assistance that my disabled son needs precluded me from attending the Carers Association picket outside the DaÃl today I intended to make my own protest by having my photograph taken with a placard outside each of West Cork's three TD's constituency offices and pos...
E-mail sent to Michael McCarthy TD...read and be very afraid !
Dear Michael,
as the constant assistance that my disabled son needs precluded me from attending the Carers Association picket outside the DaÃl today I intended to make my own protest by having my photograph taken with a placard outside each of West Cork's three TD's constituency offices and pos...
ting these to the Carers Association Facebook page in support. On arriving at your Constituency Office a young women immediately came outside to ask she could help me. I replied that I was just taking a photograph. Her response was immediate....'This is private property, the Gards are on their way.' I left immediately and the Gardai, heading for your office with a number of Gardai in the car, did pass us as we left.
As you well know, I am one lone parent Carer who provides constant care to a very severely autistic young man and I note your intention to process a Private Members Bill to promote the rights of autistics. My placard read as follows.....
'My disabled son needs 24/7/365 care. I get 1 hour and 8 minutes help per day. I do ALL the rest, every day of every week of every year. Slashing the RESPITE GRANT is INHUMAN.'
We have no Garda cover here for large chunks of time due to cuts and yet a car-full can be mobilised instantly to protect your office from one carer of mature years with a placard.
I await your comments and please note that I have reported this incident in full to the Carers Association.
See moreAs you well know, I am one lone parent Carer who provides constant care to a very severely autistic young man and I note your intention to process a Private Members Bill to promote the rights of autistics. My placard read as follows.....
'My disabled son needs 24/7/365 care. I get 1 hour and 8 minutes help per day. I do ALL the rest, every day of every week of every year. Slashing the RESPITE GRANT is INHUMAN.'
We have no Garda cover here for large chunks of time due to cuts and yet a car-full can be mobilised instantly to protect your office from one carer of mature years with a placard.
I await your comments and please note that I have reported this incident in full to the Carers Association.
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Montreal deaf school alumni demand justice from Catholic order for alleged abuse - Toronto Disability | Examiner.com
Montreal deaf school alumni demand justice from Catholic order for alleged abuse - Toronto Disability | Examiner.com
Disabled children are far more likely to be abused than non-disabled children. You only have to look at the Irish Inquiry reports to see this country had HUGE abuses in schools and institutions for disabled people. we also had HUGE abuse scandals in nearly ALL deaf schools in Ireland.
Disabled children are far more likely to be abused than non-disabled children. You only have to look at the Irish Inquiry reports to see this country had HUGE abuses in schools and institutions for disabled people. we also had HUGE abuse scandals in nearly ALL deaf schools in Ireland.
Rights of disabled people may be at risk, says Human Rights Committee - News from Parliament - UK Parliament
Rights of disabled people may be at risk, says Human Rights Committee - News from Parliament - UK Parliament
Independent living is a HUMAN RIGHT...we deserve to live our lives in the community and as we want.
Independent living is a HUMAN RIGHT...we deserve to live our lives in the community and as we want.
EUobserver.com / Disability / 'No money for EU projects discriminating disabled people'
EUobserver.com / Disability / 'No money for EU projects discriminating disabled people'
This is an important parliment/forum for disabled people in europe. how many know it even exists/?
This is an important parliment/forum for disabled people in europe. how many know it even exists/?
European Parliament of Persons with Disabilities: inclusion of disabled people.. - 05/12/2012 - EPP Group
European Parliament of Persons with Disabilities: inclusion of disabled people.. - 05/12/2012 - EPP Group
I am led to believe that Ireland is NOT represented on this parliment by a disabled person but by a disability organisation (which is not quite the same thing!)
I am led to believe that Ireland is NOT represented on this parliment by a disabled person but by a disability organisation (which is not quite the same thing!)
Mehdi's Morning Memo: Osborne Vs The Disabled
Mehdi's Morning Memo: Osborne Vs The Disabled
News from the UK - cuts cuts cuts AGAIN. Maybe my parliment should be European based
News from the UK - cuts cuts cuts AGAIN. Maybe my parliment should be European based
Disability Parliment 2
So the Ist Leader Aka myself (for the time being) has left out some important leaderships;
Leader of arts
Leader of gender equality (includes equality of Lesbian, gay, transgender people)
Leader of Family life (includes rights under birth, marriage, adoption, fostering etc) (Includes Abortion issues and maternal health in childbirth) (Includes single parenting) (Includes gay parenting)
Leader of arts
Leader of gender equality (includes equality of Lesbian, gay, transgender people)
Leader of Family life (includes rights under birth, marriage, adoption, fostering etc) (Includes Abortion issues and maternal health in childbirth) (Includes single parenting) (Includes gay parenting)
Friday, December 7, 2012
Union: Slash top pensions, not care grants | Irish Examiner
Union: Slash top pensions, not care grants | Irish Examiner
The Irish Gov attempt to 'protect the vulnerable' 0Enda said that the budget did this! huh? Enda....go back to school and learn the meaning of 'protection' and 'vulnerable'
The Irish Gov attempt to 'protect the vulnerable' 0Enda said that the budget did this! huh? Enda....go back to school and learn the meaning of 'protection' and 'vulnerable'
Couple guilty of unlawful killing by neglect of woman in Wexford - The Irish Times - Sat, Dec 08, 2012
Couple guilty of unlawful killing by neglect of woman in Wexford - The Irish Times - Sat, Dec 08, 2012
Caregiver neglect and abuse is under reported in Ireland. we need to wake up! whilst most 'carer's' are good and loyal and loving there are some who are resentful, want the inheritance and bitter about the responsibilities. They 'hasten' the disabled person into death and we must be vigilent.
disabled people, adults and children ARE abused, and we cannot shirk from that reality
Caregiver neglect and abuse is under reported in Ireland. we need to wake up! whilst most 'carer's' are good and loyal and loving there are some who are resentful, want the inheritance and bitter about the responsibilities. They 'hasten' the disabled person into death and we must be vigilent.
disabled people, adults and children ARE abused, and we cannot shirk from that reality
The Disability Parliment
All members to be disabled.
The Disability Rights perspective is paramount
The Social Model of Disability is paramount
Ministers to be called 'Leaders' NOT Ministers.
Here's my Disability Parliment 'Leaderships': (dreamtime)
First Leader: Multi-disability perspective with record of disability rights perspective in all things 'disability'.
Leader on 'Human Rights for Disabled people'
Leader on 'European Disability matters'
Leader on 'Mental Health' .
Leader on 'Learning difficulties'
Leader on 'Disabled Adults' (Includes elderly disabled people)
Leader on 'Disabled Teenagers'
Leader on 'Disabled Children'
Leader on 'Sensory Impairment'
Leader on the 'protection of Disabled children from assault/rape/abuse/neglect'
Leader on the 'protection of Disabled Adults from assault/rape/abuse/neglect/'domestic' violence'
Leader on 'Hate Crime against Disabled people'
Leader on 'Employment of Disabled people'
Leader on 'Welfare for Disabled people.
Leader on 'Disability Sports'
Leader on 'Independent living'.
Leader on 'Institutional Care'
Maybe some Leaderships can be joined together. But isn't it a fab idea! says she humbly! anyone up for it?
email: magsken57@gmail.com
The Disability Rights perspective is paramount
The Social Model of Disability is paramount
Ministers to be called 'Leaders' NOT Ministers.
Here's my Disability Parliment 'Leaderships': (dreamtime)
First Leader: Multi-disability perspective with record of disability rights perspective in all things 'disability'.
Leader on 'Human Rights for Disabled people'
Leader on 'European Disability matters'
Leader on 'Mental Health' .
Leader on 'Learning difficulties'
Leader on 'Disabled Adults' (Includes elderly disabled people)
Leader on 'Disabled Teenagers'
Leader on 'Disabled Children'
Leader on 'Sensory Impairment'
Leader on the 'protection of Disabled children from assault/rape/abuse/neglect'
Leader on the 'protection of Disabled Adults from assault/rape/abuse/neglect/'domestic' violence'
Leader on 'Hate Crime against Disabled people'
Leader on 'Employment of Disabled people'
Leader on 'Welfare for Disabled people.
Leader on 'Disability Sports'
Leader on 'Independent living'.
Leader on 'Institutional Care'
Maybe some Leaderships can be joined together. But isn't it a fab idea! says she humbly! anyone up for it?
email: magsken57@gmail.com
'OUTRAGE'
have been racking my brains as to where we disabled people can go to from here! that is, are we raging enough/ Are we challanging enough/ are we angry enough/ certainly unlike in spain or UK we are NOT chaining ourselves to Leinster House railings, or throwing paint on Gov ministers cars or any other more 'OUTRAGeous' behaviour. i don't think some of these actions are wise, but I understand them.
do the people of ireland KNOW us, do they KNOW about our lives? dDo they WANT to know us or anything about our lives? Are we visible on screen, TV, in shops or buisnesses? or are we only visible in charity collections, appeals or begging situations?
Do we have a political clout. I'm thinking here of the Senior Parliment as an example. Should we set up a disability 'parliment'. yes I like that Idea.
A new political party!
who wants to join my cabinet?
contact if interested in being part of something more radical (but not paint throwing).
We can't just sit here and 'take it' !
do the people of ireland KNOW us, do they KNOW about our lives? dDo they WANT to know us or anything about our lives? Are we visible on screen, TV, in shops or buisnesses? or are we only visible in charity collections, appeals or begging situations?
Do we have a political clout. I'm thinking here of the Senior Parliment as an example. Should we set up a disability 'parliment'. yes I like that Idea.
A new political party!
who wants to join my cabinet?
contact if interested in being part of something more radical (but not paint throwing).
We can't just sit here and 'take it' !
my letter in today's Irish Times
Sir, – Enda Kenny assured us that the most vulnerable had been protected in this Budget. He obviously has no idea of what the “vulnerable” – sick, disabled and elderly as well as those low income parents depending on child benefit – were already struggling with.
The pre-budget comment was a cynical “false prophecy” to befuddle and hearten these groups only to hammer them on Wednesday. There was no “wriggle room” for these groups before the budget and now they have been plunged into the abyss. Barnardos, the SVP, the Carers Association, Older and Bolder, Age Action and disability organisations have all come out to roundly criticise the targeting of vulnerable groups. Far from “protecting the most vulnerable” Enda Kenny and the Fine Gael-Labour coalition has brought fear and terror to people least able to “stretch” their dwindling resources. It won’t be TDs or bankers, or the troika going to bed tonight in utter despair.
Medicines won’t be taken, fuel won’t be bought, people will become sicker and more distressed, increasingly seeking help from hospitals, psychiatric institutions and nursing homes. This, is the end result of Mr Kenny’s farcical statement that the “vulnerable have been protected” in this budget. – Yours, etc,
Dr MARGARET KENNEDY,
Greystones, Co Wicklow
The pre-budget comment was a cynical “false prophecy” to befuddle and hearten these groups only to hammer them on Wednesday. There was no “wriggle room” for these groups before the budget and now they have been plunged into the abyss. Barnardos, the SVP, the Carers Association, Older and Bolder, Age Action and disability organisations have all come out to roundly criticise the targeting of vulnerable groups. Far from “protecting the most vulnerable” Enda Kenny and the Fine Gael-Labour coalition has brought fear and terror to people least able to “stretch” their dwindling resources. It won’t be TDs or bankers, or the troika going to bed tonight in utter despair.
Medicines won’t be taken, fuel won’t be bought, people will become sicker and more distressed, increasingly seeking help from hospitals, psychiatric institutions and nursing homes. This, is the end result of Mr Kenny’s farcical statement that the “vulnerable have been protected” in this budget. – Yours, etc,
Dr MARGARET KENNEDY,
Greystones, Co Wicklow
Thursday, December 6, 2012
2012 Budget
The demolition of lives I think is how best to describe yesterday's dreadful Budget. was it Eamonn Gilmore or Enda Kenny who said pre-budget that the budget had 'protected the most vulnerable'! are they living on another planet.
I don't, myself like being judged 'vulnerable' just because I am disabled, afterall every human being is vulnerable one way or another. However in general public perceptions disabled, sick and elderly and children ARE perceived as vulnerable and they have all just been made MORE vulnerable.
But put another way our HUMAN RIGHTS have been walked all over by this budget. It is a human right to lives lives worth living. It is a human right to have food, warmth, and shelter. It is a human right to have medical care and support services. These rights are there to enable those of us who are judged 'vulnerable' to have additional protection.
This government has run roughshod through our HUMAN RIGHTS.
This is therefore not about a BUDGET, but about discrimination. Discrimination on the basis of our conditions, and stemming from hitlarian mentality that we are 'useless eaters', 'untermenschion' (Sub Human), these are the terms used by hitler to justify killing disabled people in gas chambers before he ever started on the jewish population. We have always been viewed as 'costly', as 'a drain on the state' and some of the comments made on Journal.ie in relation to welfare cuts all show this Hilarian mentality.
It does not go unnoticed by politicians and journalists who subliminally discuss the HUGE welfare costs as if the Country's crises was all our fault!
it's a scary position to be in. First more costs piled on, cuts in services and benefits and on top of that the view we are a drain on the state and thus cause the crises. How are we to live with this onslought?
we fight back, we challange, we protest and we demand our human Rights. We do not cave in in despair, we cannot do that because we owe it to disabled children coming after us to change Hilarian Mentality NOW!
I'm trying to do my best and if I hadn't got one hell of a stinking cold I'd be outside leinster House today. I will try to get there next week.
Know you are loved by this campaigner. I'm sorry we are all suffering, but one thing I know...it was not our fault.
I don't, myself like being judged 'vulnerable' just because I am disabled, afterall every human being is vulnerable one way or another. However in general public perceptions disabled, sick and elderly and children ARE perceived as vulnerable and they have all just been made MORE vulnerable.
But put another way our HUMAN RIGHTS have been walked all over by this budget. It is a human right to lives lives worth living. It is a human right to have food, warmth, and shelter. It is a human right to have medical care and support services. These rights are there to enable those of us who are judged 'vulnerable' to have additional protection.
This government has run roughshod through our HUMAN RIGHTS.
This is therefore not about a BUDGET, but about discrimination. Discrimination on the basis of our conditions, and stemming from hitlarian mentality that we are 'useless eaters', 'untermenschion' (Sub Human), these are the terms used by hitler to justify killing disabled people in gas chambers before he ever started on the jewish population. We have always been viewed as 'costly', as 'a drain on the state' and some of the comments made on Journal.ie in relation to welfare cuts all show this Hilarian mentality.
It does not go unnoticed by politicians and journalists who subliminally discuss the HUGE welfare costs as if the Country's crises was all our fault!
it's a scary position to be in. First more costs piled on, cuts in services and benefits and on top of that the view we are a drain on the state and thus cause the crises. How are we to live with this onslought?
we fight back, we challange, we protest and we demand our human Rights. We do not cave in in despair, we cannot do that because we owe it to disabled children coming after us to change Hilarian Mentality NOW!
I'm trying to do my best and if I hadn't got one hell of a stinking cold I'd be outside leinster House today. I will try to get there next week.
Know you are loved by this campaigner. I'm sorry we are all suffering, but one thing I know...it was not our fault.
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