Kenny calls for action on disabilities
Fine Gael Leader Enda Kenny has called for action to tackle the 'social crisis that comes from the continued marginalisation of people with a disability' and has pledged to keep the Government under pressure to live up to its promises.
He made his comments as he addressed a People With Disabilities Ireland seminar in Co Leitrim today.
The Fine Gael leader said: "I believe there should be no barriers to inclusion and that it is the political and moral duty of the State to enable and to encourage independent living for everyone with a disability."
He added: "Moves should be made to correct the injustice whereby a carer is precluded from the Carer's Allowance if he or she is in receipt of another State benefit.
"It beggars belief that a mother, caring for her child who has a disability, is no longer entitled to the Carer's Allowance if she becomes a widow receiving the Widow's Pension."
