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IT’S BEEN ALMOST a year since Storm Emma and the Beast from the East, a rare weather combination, brought Ireland to a standstill, so we wanted to test your knowledge of everything that went on during the snowpocalypse.
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Having read the article it sounds like Aine is very well taken care of indeed and lucky to live in a country that funds a PA, her medical needs, an income and gives her a purpose built house. We bash our service providers but Mayo County and the taxpayer deserve some credit here.
i agree that it is good to be able to live in a small town like belmullet with MS, so well done to her for getting on with normal life. By the way, don’t the IASE or IWA have a bus available for getting around if you need to get to work?
Having access to a PA for 14 hours a week is not a lot to be honest. 2 hours a day…..
@Kerry Blake: That’s nothing.
She is one of the lucky ones. My adult son requires full time care. This week he gets 6 and a half hours outreach from his wonderful team. That’s over 160 hours that fall to me to provide his care. He gets 188 DA, which doesn’t nearly cover his expenses, free travel, and a medical card, which he fortunately rarely uses. Even so, I consider him lucky too. At least he has outreach, some don’t even have that. However, without financial assistance from family, I don’t know how we would cope. As for his future, his care is only assured as long as I live and am healthly enough to provide it myself. Chances are he will outlive me. I hope he will, yet I exist constantly in the dread of what will happen then.
Keep up the good fight girl…
Something as simple as a proper bus stop to access the bus is just a simple way to show the contempt the government has for its disabled!! Shame. I wonder will Minister McGrath sort out the one thing even?
How much longer do people with disabilities have to wait before our government get how difficult a life they have without enough state help, they seem to find money to waste on other useless projects e.g. exerting being one that springs to mind 50 million wasted
I’m sure the €6000 pay rise they gave themselves eases their minds
Disabled persons and their families are in for a land when their adult child moves to a nursing home as young as 60 or when the elderly parents die.
Nursing home residents under the Fair Deal are only allowed a meagre €6.34 a day to cover their personal extras while those with disabilities living in residential care settings are, rightly, allowed keep a guaranteed minimum pocket money of at least €118 a week or €16.85 a day.
This small sum needs to cover all the sundries not supplied by the nursing home. Taxis to medical appointments and an escort nurse can result in bills of €70 for each visit. Shampoo, shower gel, toothpaste, tissues, non- prescription medicines, own bottles of soft drinks, sweets or treats are essential extras. Plus new clothes and shoes replacements or repair. And mobile phone bills and radio replacement or repair. Not to mention maybe a daily newspaper or magazine of choice, and even small birthday or Christmas presents for friends or carers if residents wish to give a small token of thanks. Many attend a day centre, costing around €7 a day with lunch – and well worth it for vital socialisation- but added to this cost is a taxi each way unless volunteer drivers and relatives can provide lifts weekly. Nursing homes charge for their own activities programme and sadly this too is out of the reach of the resident with Fair Deal pocket money.
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