{"id":5246,"date":"2024-03-14T08:20:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T08:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=5246"},"modified":"2024-03-14T08:20:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T08:20:41","slug":"government-must-listen-to-people-with-disabilities-and-bin-the-green-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/government-must-listen-to-people-with-disabilities-and-bin-the-green-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Government must listen to people with disabilities and bin the Green Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has said that the government must listen to people with disabilities and bin the Green Paper on disability payment reforms.<br \/><br \/>Teachta Crowe added that the consultation process demonstrated the government\u2019s lack of respect, and that the voices of people with disabilities must be heard.<br \/><br \/>Teachta Crowe said:<br \/><br \/>\u201cThe government must listen to people with disabilities and bin the Green Paper.<br \/><br \/>\u201cThe proposals the Government have brought forward have caused huge concern that they will follow the Tory model in Britain where people are forced into work that is unsuitable and people with disabilities face sanction.<br \/><br \/>\u201cThe consultation process was poor throughout and demonstrated once again a lack of respect for people with disabilities.<br \/><br \/>\u201cWhile the current system of disability payments is not fit for purpose and reform is badly needed, the proposals contained within the Green Paper are not the answer, they would further extend the existing problems.<br \/><br \/>\u201cLow levels of employment and the very high extra cost of disability compound the need for urgent system-change to ensure people don\u2019t fall further below the poverty line.<br \/><br \/>\u201cBut the current Green Paper proposals wrongfully conflate the cost of disability with employment and capacity to work.<br \/><br \/>\u201cIn many cases where people with disabilities are in employment it is often, due to educational barriers, in low paid jobs with little prospect of progression. Therefore, their ability to lift themselves out of poverty through employment alone is limited by the current system.<br \/><br \/>\u201cThe paper also assumes that the more severe the disability, the higher the cost to the individual, but the cost of disability can vary on many factors, not just severity of disability.<br \/><br \/>\u201cCreating a link between the cost of disability and employment suggests that people with disabilities are not trying hard enough to find employment and plays into fears that these proposals are similar to Tory welfare reforms that are having a huge negative effect on people with disabilities in Britain.<br \/><br \/>\u201cThe message from people with disabilities is loud and clear. They want the government to listen to them, and they want the Green Paper binned.\u201d <br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has said that the government must listen to people with disabilities and bin the Green Paper on disability payment reforms. Teachta Crowe added that the consultation process demonstrated the government\u2019s lack of respect, and that the voices of people with disabilities must be heard. Teachta Crowe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5247,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246\/revisions\/5247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}