Category: Housing
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Before We Die – National Assembly
Before We Die (Website • Facebook page) started with one question, asked by families who could not get an answer from the State: Who will care for my son or daughter when I am no longer able to? The Helix, Dublin 9 • Saturday 19 September 2026 • 11 AM – 3 PM Before We…
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Siblings left to take up carer roles
‘State of crisis’ – Call for supports as siblings left to take up carer roles RTÉ News – 14th Aug 2026 – Ailbhe Conneely Following years of cancer treatment, Aisling O’Leary’s mother told her daughter in her final days that everything she had done had been for her two girls. Aisling promised her mother that…
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Wasted Lives report
Published in May 2021, the Wasted Lives report by the Ombudsman in Ireland investigated the inappropriate placement of roughly 1,300 people under the age of 65 in older-person nursing homes. It highlighted a critical human rights issue, showing that younger individuals with disabilities were stranded due to fractured funding and a lack of community care.…
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The Right Home: the Housing Needs of People with Disabilities
A Social Policy Report by the Citizens Information Board and the Disability Federation of Ireland. Dec 2022Read the report.
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National Housing Strategy for Disabled People
National Housing Strategy for Disabled People 2022-2027Download the strategy Download the implementation plan
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Moving In, Moving On Report
An evaluation of the outcomes and costs of congregated and community models of service in the disability sector. December 2021National Disability AuthorityRead the report
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Time to Move on from Congregated Settings
– A Strategy for Community Inclusion aka Transforming Lives Time to Move on from Congregated Settings – A Strategy for Community Inclusion is an Irish national policy under the Transforming Lives Programme. It aims to transition people with disabilities out of large institutional settings (where 10 or more people live together) into ordinary, community-based homes…