Mr. Desmond Kenny:

What we see in the urgency of parents and the development of campaigns that come from parents is that organisations then sweep that into themselves and think that they can become the voice for those campaigns. In some way, Aideen Hartney touched on it. There are go-to organisations for the blind and the deaf and the wheelchair user. This committee, going forward, could insist that all of those organisations - a bit like the two Houses of the Oireachtas - create their own senate of people with disabilities within those organisations to whom they can commit time and State resources, which they receive in copious amounts, to creating that voice for a disability and then we can look to sweep that disability classification up into a generality of the DPOs. Separate organisations would ultimately amalgamate into DPOs. The Independent Living Movement Ireland is a cross-disability DPO. That is the way it has to go forward. There is a commonality of need and remedy that we could be wastefully dissipating if we do not, first of all, look for the segregation of organisations into creating a voice for their disabled service users and then amalgamating that into DPOs. That is frightfully important.