Summary
- Ensure that the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with a Disability (UNCRPD).
- Grant Medical Cards on basis on patient need not income.
- Extend the Disability Act 2005 to include all persons with a disability.
- Enact Part II of the Disability Rights Act to entitle people to an immediate needs assessment.
- Implement the Education of Persons with Special Education Needs Act (2004).
- Implement the Assisted Decision-Making Act (2015).
- Establish a Joint Oireachtas Disability Inclusion Committee.
- Introduce hate crime legislation to tackle crimes against the disabled.
- Implement the Citizens Information Act 2007.
- Establish a National Advocacy Authority to protect the rights of people with disabilities.
- Establish a National Respite Strategy to address ad hoc provision of respite care across Ireland.
- Increase the Disability Allowance by €20 weekly.
- Introduce a Disability Tax Credit of €1560 annually.
- Provide an emergency Wheelchair Provision Fund of €37 million.
- Reverse all cuts and increase the budget for disability services by €50m annually.
- Increase the budget for the Personal Assistant service by €7 million each year from 2016 -2019.
- Invest €50m in community support packages.
- Invest €30m in the Housing Adaptation Grant Scheme.
- Provide accessible housing for the almost 5,000 people with disabilities on social housing waiting lists.
- Ring fence 8%-15% of the HSE disability budget governed by service-level arrangements (SLAs) to individualised and community based models of supports
- Ring-fence €3m annually to address the lack of care centres providing intensive neurological rehabilitation
- Allocate 15% of the Fair Deal budget to providing nursing home and homecare services to under-35s.
