96.7% of members voted that Older people and persons with disabilities should be facilitated and resourced as much as possible if their choice is to be cared for at home. #CitizensAssembly

It’s been one of those magic weekends in the West 👌 📷captured tonight by Avril Glavin

The In Conversation Series. A family-led initiative developed by Positive Pathways in collaboration with Inclusive Living Network and supported by Genio. inconversationseries.com

Wasted Lives: Time for a better future for younger people in nursing homes youtu.be/ydP2L5ePfLo

ILMI space to explore progress on the Personalised Budgets Demonstration Models: Tuesday 25th May 12noon to 1pm If you are interested in participating, please email [email protected] More info on this link facebook.com/ILMIreland/pho…

Community – A Disability Perspective inclusivelivingnetwork.ie/community-a-di…

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Digital communication is a force for both exclusion and inclusion of people with special needs irishtimes.com/life-and-style… via The Irish Times a great article in todays Irish Times that I was interviewed for.

Owen Collumb from AT “We call on the immediate implementation action to make direct payments available to all Leaders who desire or wish to choose Direct Payments for themselves”. “There are leaders in situations today where their freedom to choose has been denied”

Senator Erin McGreehan TD asking about the international PAS context while demonstrating an in depth knowledge about why Personal Assistance Service affords genuine choice and control over a disabled persons own life

able bodied people sitting around tables making decisions everyday about disabled people's lives ILMI's policy officer highlights the inequality in this by the statement "You wouldn't go to a men's shed and ask them about women's issues" #DisabledPeopleAreTheDisabilityExperts

“What strikes me here today is that all you are really looking for is choice and control over your own lives”. Sean Canney TD #Equality

Fiona Weldon asked the “unbunduling” question as she supports individuals on their journey to direct payments. Funding should follow the individual. Fiona works in ILMI as the Strategies For Change Project worker and she is a board member of AT

“The normalisation of seeing disabled people in our communities hasn’t come easily. If we stand side by side we must realise the real struggles that took place to enable us to be included in society” Áiseanna Tacaíochta #Equality

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'Nobody spoke up for her. Nobody tried to help her ... No one asked where Grace was'. Fianna Fáil TD John McGuinness has described the Grace case as 'the greatest scandal of our time'. | bit.ly/3n4J8K7

Care homes don't have enough nurses. Older people get stuck in hospital. The whole system grinds to a halt. Who cares? theguardian.com/society/2021/n…

Exciting news! With the support of a grant from Hallmark Foundation & inspired by major campaigns such as Caring Across Generations in the USA & Every Australian Counts - We can announce plans to design & seek funding for a major long range campaign. socialcarefuture.org.uk/from-social-ca…

Transformation of services for persons with disabilities. By by Gerard Quinn UN SR Disability Rights - G. Quinn. documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/…

What if instead of prescribing our version of salvation, we started with the question, ”What are local communities already doing, which creates that which we think they are missing?” TheConnected.Community