There was significant media commentary recently about people with intellectual disabilities and rights denied to them, including a home of their own. You are 40 years old, you have an intellectual disability, you are living with your parents and they are getting older. In that most traumatic of times, you are forced to move in with strangers, far away from your community. Deliberately and methodically channel some of the €3.8bn spent on service provision towards creativity, innovation, and early planning with people. A system that only responds in crisis, is a broken system and it results in broken people.

Source: Irish Examiner February 16, 2026 02:30 UTC