John Dolan's speech in Mansion House Pre-Budget 2012

Ireland is now getting some credit in the international media for learning from its mistakes and sorting out its problems. Our Government may well be protecting the economy, it certainly is implementing plans to do so, but is it protecting people with disabilities? We are still calling for a plan to protect and implement the National Disability Strategy. Sometimes clichés are correct, “if you fail to plan you plan to fail”.