Mr. Dermot Lowndes:

My opinion is that people with a disability should be on every board.

I was on the board of St. Michael's House. There was a new CEO. Many parents left because they did not like the new ideas that the boss woman was giving out, but she left. It then kind of went back to the old way. That makes you think there is no interest and you wonder what is the plan. If no plan is being made, it makes you think "Oh well". I have a platform but there are other people in there who cannot speak up. You might as well be talking to the door. Who is going to look after people with a disability living on their own whose parents die? Who is going to look after their funds? Will there be provision in the Bill for such people to be looked after? What will happen to people who do not have any siblings, are non-verbal and live on their own? Will they have to go into care?