The Clare Leader Forum has lambasted the Department of Social Protection for its depiction of disabled people in the Green Paper on Disability Reform.
Public consultation is currently open for the Green Paper which is centred on the “the restructuring of long-term disability payments” including disability allowance, invalidity pension, blind pension, incapacity benefit and domiciliary care allowance.
To discuss the impact of the changes on people in receipt of said payments, an “urgent meeting” will be held at the Temple Gate Hotel Ennis on Friday at 11am.
Trish McNamara of the Clare Leader Forum, which is organising the meeting, says the way disabled people are being discussed in the Green Paper is despicable.
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