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  1. HSE recruiting volunteers with a lived experience of disability for new Disability Advisory Group

    Issued: 23 March 2021, 12pm

    The HSE are recruiting three people with lived experience of disability to express their interest in volunteering to …

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  2. DFI urge Government to prioritise people with disabilities for COVID-19 vaccines

    Issued: 10 December 2020, 12pm

    DFI are disappointed that the provisional COVID-19 vaccine allocation announced by the Department of Health does not …

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  3. Cost of disability doesn't add up

    Issued: 21 October 2020, 10am

    Opinion piece for The Times Ireland Edition, published Oct. 21,2020 Readers of this paper will be familiar with medical …

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  4. DFI Raise Unsustainable Pressures on People with Disabilities to New Disability Ministers

    Issued: 5 August 2020, 12pm

    DFI met with the new Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration, Roderic O’Gorman and the Minister …

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  5. HSE Publish Information on when Services will Re-open

    Issued: 29 July 2020, 10am

    DFI welcomes yesterday’s publication ‘A Safe Return to Health Services’, particularly the news that core …

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  6. European Anti-Poverty Network Ireland Briefing on Impact of COVID-19

    Issued: 15 July 2020, 11am

    The European Anti-Poverty Network Ireland recently published a briefing titled “Rethinking a More Inclusive and Equal …

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  7. Joint Oireachtas Committee on UN CRPD implementation a game changer?

    Issued: 30 June 2020, 2pm

    DFI welcomes the establishment of a Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with …

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  8. The talking is finally over. We analyse the Programme for Government.

    Issued: 19 June 2020, 11am

      What’s in this for the disability sector?   The Programme for Government contains progress on key areas …

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  9. 42% of applications for disability allowance rejected in 2018.

    Issued: 14 February 2019, 12pm

    "Not being believed was one of the hardest things. It took 16 months in total to get disability allowance — it was so …

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  10. Key points from budget 2019

    Issued: 15 October 2018, 12pm

    Health The overall health budget is set to be €17.2 billion, an increase of 6.6 per cent. Of that amount, there will …

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  11. Budget 2019 Press Release - DFI welcomes disability proofing of future budgets

    Issued: 9 October 2018, 4pm

    The Disability Federation of Ireland, DFI, welcomes the €150 million increase to disability services along with €55 …

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  12. Launch of Research Report 20 September 2018

    Issued: 20 September 2018, 11am

    DFI welcomes the launch of the report by Dr Maria Pierce, Sophia Kilcullen and Dr Mel Duffy in DCU, The Situation of …

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