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DFI
@DisabilityFed
National support organisation for voluntary #disability groups. RT is not necessarily an endorsement. Also at bit.ly/2TekkzO and bit.ly/3jfMjK4
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disability-federation.ie
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    DFI
    @DisabilityFed
    Oct 13, 2020
    Great to hear the opposition mention disability early on in their response to #Budget2021. We need to get to the point where people with disabilities do not have to battle for their rights. Today you could have done a lot more for them says @PearseDoherty #DisabilityMatters
    Pearse Doherty, Sinn Féin
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    DFI
    @DisabilityFed
    May 23, 2023
    One of our delegates Carolyn Akintola will be addressing today’s #DisabilityParliament She’s a wheelchair user who had to leave her power chair behind on the tarmac in Dublin Airport as the airline could not fit it. She’s speaking about free movement for disabled people in the EU
    Carolyn Akintola
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    DFI
    @DisabilityFed
    Mar 22, 2022
    None of the 91 Children's Disability Network Team is fully staffed and there is an average vacancy rate of 25% across Children's Disability Network Teams, @HSELive tells CEDIY committee. Really important that recruitment and retention issues are urgently addressed
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    DFI
    @DisabilityFed
    Sep 28, 2023
    .@TomClonan giving a passionate address now on the stark situation for disabled people in Ireland at our event on #Budget24 in the Oireachtas AV room today. He says the Government are not listening!
    AV room event in Leinster House
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    DFI
    @DisabilityFed
    Feb 8, 2021
    All staff in disability services will be able to register for the COVID-19 vaccine from tomorrow - great development This includes all disability services eg PA, home support, day, residential, respite etc.
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    DFI
    @DisabilityFed
    Oct 13, 2016
    Very sad Martin Naughton our colleague, disability activist & pioneer of the Independent Living movement passed away. May he rest in peace
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    DFI
    @DisabilityFed
    Oct 6, 2020
    Almost 70 TDs, across parties and the whole opposition, are supporting the motion in the Oireachtas tonight calling on the government to address the #disabilityfundingcrisis. We don’t often all agree on issues, but we do agree on this! @HollyCairnsTD
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    DFI
    @DisabilityFed
    Nov 11, 2021
    On @rteliveline @joeliveline now Andrew says "I live not in poverty but destitution. My electricity meter ran out on Sunday. I had to sit in the dark and couldn’t cook for 3 days, until Wednesday when I got my Disability Allowance." @AnneRabbitte @HHumphreysFG @joefingalgreen
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    DFI
    @DisabilityFed
    Sep 4, 2020
    This is worrying. Therapists like SLTs, physiotherapists and occupational therapists do vital work supporting people who are born with or acquire disabilities. Extra resources needed instead of reallocating essential staff. @IrwinGill @deepend_ireland @ChildRightsIRL @naiireland
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    The Irish Times
    @IrishTimes
    Sep 3, 2020
    Concern grows as HSE therapists redeployed as Covid-19 testers irishtimes.com/news/health/co…
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    DFI
    @DisabilityFed
    Sep 26, 2022
    Disabled people have extra costs that can reach €12,300 a year. But Disability Allowance is only €208 a week. Those unable to work due to disability are FIVE times more likely to live in consistent poverty than national average. Action needed in #Budget2023 #KeepYourPromises
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    Access For All Ireland
    @AccessForAll7
    Sep 26, 2022
    With reports coming out that the social welfare payments are at most to be increased by €15 it seems that our community living in poverty is not the priority for government that it should be. #CostOfLivingCrisis #CostOfLivingCoalition
    Bernard holding up a banner saying PUP was €350 why our disability and caring payments a lot less.
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    DFI
    @DisabilityFed
    Nov 2, 2022
    Don't forget to watch at 7pm tonight to hear more about @James22034777 and his voyage across Ireland by public transport to test how accessible it is🧑‍🦽👩‍🦽
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    RTÉ Nationwide
    @RTENationwide
    Nov 2, 2022
    We join Dublin teenager James Casserly on part of his journey across Ireland, a challenge he has taken on to see how accessible public transport is for wheelchair users - Watch @James22034777 on #RTENationwide this evening, Wednesday 2nd November @RTEOne 7pm @rte @colmflynnire RT
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    DFI
    @DisabilityFed
    May 22, 2023
    Off we go to the fifth European Parliament of Persons with Disabilities
    Irish delegation in Dublin airport heading to EPPD
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    DFI
    @DisabilityFed
    Oct 10, 2023
    An increase of €12 in weekly payments is nowhere near enough to keep up with inflation. Anti-poverty groups, including DFI, called for more than double that. Once again in 2024, disabled people will face a real term cut in their income. #EndPoverty #Budget2024
    A screenshot of DFI's Budget asks for social protection. Read more here https://www.disability-federation.ie/publications/dfis-pre-budget-submission-2024-to-the-dsp/
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    DFI
    @DisabilityFed
    Jul 27, 2020
    Both the previous Minister for Health @SimonHarrisTD and current Minister @DonnellyStephen said the €20m cut to disability services would be reversed. But now the Minister does not know if it will go ahead. Services need an answer.
    Health Minister unable to say whether €20m cuts to disability services will go ahead
    From irishexaminer.com