Are you on drugs ???!!!
You haven't got a clue if you think the disabled children and adults are well funded and well looked after !!
My DD waited 8 years for a scoliosis appointment!! 8 years ! and we sat in Crumlin hospital for 5 hours waiting to be seen ! It was 2 years before her next appointment when she turned 16 then no more appointments there because she was 16 ! She's 17 now and were still waiting to hear who's taking over !
We're nearly a year into her being 17 and still waiting for an appointment from Beaumont for neurology because Temple Street finished with her at 16years but that just tough luck for us dealing with 4 types of seizures! We've no point of contact to contact when things get bad !
Her special needs school had the funding for the cook cut completely meaning no food for any of the children, it's not like main stream school where you can stick a sandwich in a lunch box ! These children need hot food, blended food, food suitable for their needs, yes we as parents try to supply what our children can eat but it's very hard when they can't physically eat cold foods like sandwiches, when meals were supplied they were cooked by a cook who knew and had lists for every child of what they could and couldn't eat, meals then brought to the classrooms heated and ready to be given by the snas, now the snas have to organise whatever has been sent in by parents , heat, plate and feed, they have enough to be doing without having to leave the children in the classroom a couple of bodies down to prepare hot food !
Then you have respite 10 years we waited to be granted respite and we got one day every 2 months recently, because of cuts the government made to the funding of this, there's not enough houses, staff, and lists that go on forever of children needing this ! That finishes when she turns 18 ! So we get one year of respite something we desperately need because she's night medicated and sleeps for 3 hours !!!
My carers was cut because my husband works and we were 21 euro over the limit !!! Cut in half ! 121.00 I get a week to take care of my child needs, what the hell will that buy her ! People on job seekers get more ! They need to abolish the means testing.
When she turns 18years she finishes school, she's supposed to go into adult services but the funding across the Country for transport to these services has been cut, these services are not on your doorstep, they're in the middle of nowhere and a minimum of an hour's drive, so that's just tough for her if we can't get her there ourselves, so I either buy a 2nd car or take 3 buses with a wheelchair !
My disabled sister now sits in her home every day because her transport to her adult services was cut too ! What's she meant to do ? She's in a wheelchair, she can't drive she can't get the bus ! She's just rotting away, her home help was cut too ! She gets 7 hours a week ! 7 lousy hours in a whole week and sometimes the help is late due to traffic or issues with previous client so my sister looses out as that all adds up, the help can't stay late because they have another client, then if the help is sick there's never anyone to fill in, never !
This is only a few things there's tons more , the carers group I'm in there a minimum of 200 parents with similar and worse issues and that's just one group, there's many more and many more parents and carers in the same situation across the Country and you think they're well looked after !