An op-ed piece by Fergus Finlay:
http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints ... 40356.html
Quote:
The facts are that a small group of people with an intellectual disability find themselves each year in a constitutional trap. The worst thing that can happen in their lives happens - they become 18. At that moment, thanks to the infamous Supreme Court Synnott judgment, they lose their constitutional right to an education. In effect, that means that the Department of Education, which had been responsible for funding those elements of their care that go towards an education, ceases to have any responsibility whatever, and hands them over to whatever other State agency will fund their care from now on. Exactly the same people, exactly the same needs, but one government department can wash its hands of them...
Shameful. How can the good citizens of Northern Ireland turn a blind eye to this?
