Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

Disability Inclusive Social Protection: Discussion

Mr. Alradi Abdalla:

I would like to add to that. On the basic income security, we need to recognise that all the time the basic income security is paid to cover the basic needs of human beings, regardless of their disabilities. We need to always have these things together, including disability allowance that could care for disability-related costs. In many cases, disabled people have to access one or another so they cannot access either. In simple words, they have to only care about their basic needs or their disability requirement needs. We have to have both schemes; a basic income security scheme and a disability scheme going together to share both care needs.