Comments on: Government/Fianna Fail junk mail

By: Stephen Neill

Stephen Neill — Thu, 03 May 2007 22:10:29 +0000

Thanks Padraig – sometimes just to know somebody else cares makes all the difference

By: Padraig O'Morain

Padraig O'Morain — Thu, 03 May 2007 21:49:09 +0000

Well, I didn’t get the parenting leaflet at all though I did get a leaflet from Sean Ardagh TD FF with a pic of those two penguins from the Guinness ad and various other “green” photographs. But that comment from Stephen Neill above illustrates the disconnection between the election campaign and the needs of those who are too easily disregarded.
Padraig

By: Stephen Neill

Stephen Neill — Thu, 03 May 2007 21:17:18 +0000

As a parent of a child with special needs I was dissappointed to find no mention of this in the parenting leaflet and the Disability leaflet was an insult to those who have to deal with disability issues. It is nothing but aspirations and intentions and completly lacking in tangeable support for those in this catgory. My son attends a special school where speach and language therapy services are only available on an assesment basis and where the hydro-therapy pool was only recently re-opened and cannot be maintained without additional payments from parents of children in the school. So what the government gives wih the one hand in tax relief and domicilliary allowance is taken back through the unavoidable recource to private therapy and subsidy of so called state services. ROTFLOL!
And the solution – A fucking leaflet on recycled paper!