As Budget 24 is announced today, we continue to call for the prioritisation of supported individuals and disability services across Ireland.

#DisabilityBudget #Budget2024 #DisabilityBudget 24 #DisabillityBudget2024 #CostOfDisability

Has consideration been given to how disabled people will be impacted by this scheme? It's not a simple process for many disabled citizens to return bottles & cans. Particularly challenging for people with mobility impairments or those who can't drive. Another #costofdisability !

🌹 We were delighted to attend the The Labour Party Conference 2024 over the weekend with the Oireachtas Disability Group.

Top of our priority list when speaking to public representatives, was to urgently address the #CostOfDisability .

At the Rehab Group, we call for people with disabilities to be prioritised in #Budget24 .

#DisabilityBudget #Budget2024 #DisabilityBudget 24 #DisabillityBudget2024 #CostOfDisability

ILMI's Claire Kenny meets Minister for Finance Michael McGrath in Co Longford ahead of #Budget2024 ILMI advocates Government investment in Disabled People: fostering inclusion, and choice. The robust Discussion covered PAS #PASnow , DPOs, employment, and #costofdisability

DFI launched the first episode of their podcast

'We are delighted to have the support of TTM as we use the creative world of podcasts to inform, engage and champion change for disabled people in Ireland'-Brenda Drumm, DFI Comms Manager

Listen bit.ly/3Z0KNRw

Politicians have a duty of care in establishing a pathway from #mentalillness to #mentalhealth

To see #costofdisability - would be wonderful to see #benefitsofdisability

The strength required to be, the resilience, the exhausting daily battle.

Lived experiences matter.

#BasicIncome is #ablest ... the #disabled need our #CRPD #Article28 rights to an #Adequate Standard of living Louise Chabot including #DisabledSeniors & the #CostofDisability NDP BC NDP IL Canada MoodDisorders Canada Accessible Canada Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence CanadianFreedom #VotePPC Carla Qualtrough #onpoli

In advance of #Budget24 we will be highlighting lived experiences of our service users and how the #costoflivingcrisis impacts those with disabilities & their hope to live independently
This person's experience highlights the need for #CostofDisability payment
#DisabilityBudget24

Link for Left Out in the Cold: Energy Poverty and Energy Pollution Friends of the Earth Webinar
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#energypoverty #fuelpoverty #costofdisability #Budget2024 #SDGs #SDGSummit #climatechange #stopclimatechange #climatesolutions #SDGs #sustainabledevelopmentgoals

The extra financial burden of having a disability needs to be recognised and reflected in a permanent State payment #costofdisability #disabilityreform

Well done all #costofdisability

The #CostOfDisability should not be transferred back to disabled person to pay when we work. This is discriminatory & penalises us for having a disability in the first place.
Áine Kenny Áine mayo for sam O'Hara @luberachi Brigid O'Dea The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Disabled Artists & Disabled Academics Arts & Disability Ireland

Well said Holly Cairns TD The only way we can sustainably thrive, contribute & participate in all areas of life & society is if there is equity. A #CostofDisability payment would give us the security to meet the additional 8,000-12,000e cost of having a disability.

'I struggle to pay for the extra costs associated with my disabilities. I need help most weeks from my family, this adds to the anxiousness that I already experience' ~
National Learning Network student and advocate Michael Meere addressing the Oireachtas today
#CostofDisability

Disabled people do not have equal rights in Ireland. Forced to make an impossible choice: retain entitlement to disability supports. OR attempt to participate & lose support.

Doesn’t Heather Humphreys & Co know that both disability the #CostOfDisability are real &non-negotiable?

The transferral of the #CostOfDisability back onto the disabled person who tries to work is a huge barrier in the precarious competitive world of self-employment & entrepreneurship. It means PWD must first earn 10,000e approx for disability cost before business costs. Dr Tom Clonan

Discrimination: WSS= a non-disabled employer is subsidised cost of disability. BUT when we ‘hire ourselves’ as disabled self-employed=no support. We lose supports & must bear full #CostOfDisability ourselves!
Extend the WSS to self-employed disabled people DFI

TRUE but work should not cost us - when accepting work means we risk/lose disability supports like the medical card then we literally cannot afford to work. Ref INDECON #CostofDisability Report of over €10,000 a year. Meeting disability cost=prerequisite to being able to work.

Looking forward to reading this important paper. People unable to work due to disability are most likely to be unable to afford to keep their home warm - 1 in 5 last year.

Action needed on #EnergyPoverty and the extra #CostOfDisability .