Sinn Féin TD for Cavan-Monaghan Pauline Tully has said that people with disabilities and carers "deserve better." Deputy Tully who is Sinn Féin's spokesperson on Disability, will put forward a motion in Dáil later today calling on the government to deliver rights-based access to supports and services.
Speaking to Northern Sound ahead of the motion, Deputy Tully said that people with disabilities and carers deserve "so much better." Despite this, they feel "abandoned" and have been "constantly let down" by this government, according to Deputy Pauline Tully. Deputy Tully has also called on Government to introduce a "comprehensive rights-based charter" for family carers to provide the necessary steps across all departments and in order to deliver the rights in the charter.
Deputy Tully continued; "As well as this, the government must accept and realise that the €55.6 million in additional new development funding which was provided for disability services in Budget 2024 is not adequate to deliver the measures contained in the Disability Services Action Plan. They must also relax the Carer’s Allowance means test and increase disability allowance, invalidity pension, illness benefit, carer’s allowance and benefit, and the annual carer’s support grant. Financial supports for people with disabilities and family carers are inadequate and fail minimum essential standards of living tests."
