Ms Fiona Weldon:

I have a few points to make. Ms Daly, Ms Hassett and Ms Ní Fhlatharta and I live in a system that supports difference. We have felt different. We do not facilitate disabled people to live an ordinary, minimal life. We are guardians, mothers, fathers and parents, and hold many other roles. I am a disabled mother of an adult son but it is scary to think that the Irish support system would have the right to assess my parental capacity to look after my son. That is ridiculous. It is crazy that we have to endure that sort of systematic oppression.

It was mentioned earlier that the disability sector is very profitable. There are many millions of euro involved. The stark reality is that it employs mostly non-disabled people. We need the DPOs, such as ILMI, Disabled Women Ireland and others, to be nourishing and available to be called upon when a disabled person needs an answer. Unless we are talked to, nothing is going to change.