Dáil debates

Tuesday, 13 February 2018

3:35 pm

Photo of Danny Healy-RaeDanny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is an ambition of this partnership Government to empower people with disabilities to live independent lives, in other words to taking them out of congregated settings and placing them in decongregated settings. However, no assessment is being done of how this is working. In one instance, a person was given 28 anti-psychotic doses in the month of May when that person should only have gotten four. This person is blind as a result. I want this case investigated. I want the rest of the decongregated settings investigated and assessed to see how they are operating but in this particular case, this man is blind-----

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