John Brassil (Kerry, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Given that more than 50 families in Tralee and its environs have gone without a single night's respite care for more than 14 months for their adult disabled dependants, including a 75 year old women who is in poor health and looking after her middle-aged son, when will the Government finally ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and give some level of hope to those people and their families? To cite an example in this respect, last year the HSE sanctioned the purchase of a building to provide respite care in Kerry and this year it refused funding for the running of it. What level of ineptitude will we accept from that organisation for it to do something like that?

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