‘Autistic people have waiting long enough’ – Kilkenny TD calls for new Dáil committee
A Kilkenny TD has slammed the Government over its “ongoing failure” to establish an Oireachtas committee on autism.
Deputy Kathleen Funchion has called on the Government to ensure the committee is established as a priority “to ensure autistic people’s rights and entitlements are protected”.
The local Sinn Féin TD added: “Autistic people have waited long enough. They deserve to see appropriate state support to meet their needs and ensure their rights are protected.
“I have spoken to many autistic people and their families about their frustrations on this issue. They need to have confidence that the Government is taking this issue seriously and giving them the support they are entitled to.
“I and my Sinn Féin colleagues will continue to raise this issue and hold the Government to account over their responsibilities. We need to see an Oireachtas Committee on Autism established as a matter of priority.”
Damon Matthew Wise Âû says:
We welcome meeting her and others on Autism Bill, enabling non Psychiatric assumed lack of capacity under the Mental health acts.
At the moment only those of us who have been certified with legal capacity through NCPD National Council for (the status of) “” People with Disabilities ( section without brackets) in members and with for Charitable CLG and NCPD Autistic (Advocacy) Council of Ireland on Facebook and social groups.
As groups cross Disability catagories, many of us mainly run and co-ordinated by Âûtistics as unpaid volunteers with issues and traits in every disability catagory, around the Island of Ireland) and former members, groups and Networks of PwDI People with Disabilities in Ireland, unfunded by the Government in 2011 since we are exclusively of, for, by, run and by PwD from our Social Welfare as unpaid volunteers.