Irish Disability Advocate with RP, Ushers & chronic pain. Vocal for #SocialJustice & #UNCPD. Demand full physical & comms access. Scrap the Act, rebuild it!
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The Dept of Disability's review of the Disability Act 2005 is live. My message is clear: 🛑 STOP amending a loophole. Adults have NO legal right to an Assessment of Needs. Scrap it and rebuild from the ground up!
@MichealMartinTD @SimonHarrisTD @NormaFoleyTD1 @EmerHigginsTD
Julie Anne Cunneen retweeted
Spent a day in Beaumont Hospital A and E last week. The waiting room is a literal tent. Id say it was put in as a temporary measure during covid and now is permanent. Old people basically sat outside shivering for hours on end. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
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People deserve better than this, was in A&E with a family member in Cork City last night and to say it was like The Twilight Zone is an understatement. Decent hardworking people deserve better than having to sit on a plastic chair in a stinking portacabin for hours on end!
Julie Anne Cunneen retweeted
Same in Tallaght 76 year old woman (my Mam) left on a chair over 24 hours in pain absolute disgrace ,what are we paying carzg amounts if tax for and we can't get basic care @HSELive
Currently freezing in cork university hospital A&E @HSELive. Never experienced anything like it in my life. Sent home post op Monday with no antibiotics and back queuing in a&e. Huge medical neglect @MichealMartinTD @DonnollyStephen
Julie Anne Cunneen retweeted
Hello @JamesBrowneTD . 400 approved housing body representatives gathered in Cork to discuss all things finance to deliver & improve the delivery of social housing . Where are you ! Where is any junior Minister? Where is any senior department official? @icsh_ie @DeptHousingIRL
Julie Anne Cunneen retweeted
#Budget2027 failed #Disabled Citizens & #Carers - #Disabled Citizens engaged in good faith with meaningless ‘Consultation’ -Paltry €500 ‘Cost of Disability’ payment excludes Disabled workers & Children Under 16 - #Disability & #Carers Allowance Should Be Non-Means Tested Payment
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The lived experience.
Now you have to sit in the pouring rain waiting for someone else to give you permission to get on a public bus.
We’ve proposed buses that can accommodate two chairs but we’re told told “contracts signed and deals are done, we will consider it in the next procurement process” that’s at least 10-15yrs away!!!!
Public transport Eh!!!!!
#Exclusion #Disabilities
@struggleiswheel @adayinmywheels
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Recommended CHI probe into spinal and orthopaedic care risks ‘shielding people responsible for failures’, say families independent.ie/irish-news/he…
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@fiannafailparty and @FineGael have just desecrated my son Harvey’s memory.
After everything our family has endured, this is how they choose to treat his legacy. I will not stay silent, and I will not let them rewrite what happened to my son.
The government has accepted the recommendation to carry out a commission of investigation into spinal and orthopaedic care by Children's Health Ireland (CHI) rather than a public inquiry.
jrnl.ie/7175579t
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"The daily cost of living with a vision impairment is in many ways incalculable."
Pat Dolan of Fighting Blindness on the costs that never show up on a receipt.
Read our pre-Budget-submission: rebrand.ly/9j23yyk
Julie Anne Cunneen retweeted
These children have not only been failed during this neat 6 year window and that timeline is absolutely indefensible.
-In 2016 Harvey was born, with quite serious scoliosis already at that point and Temple Street (pre-CHI) linked him to an orthopaedic surgeon that only deals with feet so he was never even reviewed properly.
-In 2017 we got told his scoliosis was ‘life and death’ and that his ribs were crushing his lungs. That same year we saw the Prime Time exposé highlighting the years of failures in scoliosis care that led to @SimonHarrisTD 4 month sound bite.
-In 2018 at 2 years of age, Harvey got pneumonia for the first time as a result or reduced lung function.
This is the type of information that won’t even feature in this farce of an inquiry.
Julie Anne Cunneen retweeted
Please find below our official statement regarding the upcoming inquiry into Spina bifida and hydrocephalus care in Ireland . Again our families are being let down.
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Please Share - Govt Is Attempting To Reverse Engineer The Law To Make Their Illegal ‘Assessment Of Need’ Legal By Amending Disability Act - Removing The Right To AON & Permitting Unqualified HSE Administrators Review #Disabled Citizens Medical Records - #Ableist #StopTheBill
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It seems that after all Gillian and Steven have been through it still did not warrant a courtesy call to attend the report briefing, No, instead people who have not been as affected they were invited along.
A shocking way to treat Steven and Gillian after all they have been through.
#JusticeForHarvey
Family of Harvey Morrison condemn closed-door inquiry plan
✍️John Mooney/ Sadie Loughman
The Irish health minister is accused of reneging on a promise to hold a public inquiry into the treatment of children suffering from scoliosis
Carroll MacNeill’s officials told affected families and campaigners on Saturday that they planned to hold an inquiry into the scandal behind closed doors. Harvey’s parents were not invited to the briefing.
“We feel incredibly disappointed that we weren’t invited to the briefing, given everything that has happened and how Harvey was treated, especially knowing he was mentioned in the report. The whole thing seems to be completely diluted and not at all what had been agreed,” Gillian Sherratt, Harvey’s mother, said.
"We want Harvey's story and the way he was failed out in public. They have hidden behind closed doors for long enough. I would call on the minister to put a halt to bringing this to cabinet and instead focus on ensuring that this is the child-centred and family-centred inquiry that was promised to us,' she added
#JusticeforHarvey #CHI #PublicInquiryCHi #BackUs #HowIrelandWorks
thetimes.com/article/4d4ff81…
Julie Anne Cunneen retweeted
We don’t think it can be emphasised enough that the families and children most affected by the scoliosis scandal are once again the people being purposely left outside the room.
It has been insult after insult to us in this community.
The two groups who have campaigned for us relentlessly have being kept in the dark and others who have “Zero” involvement in our situation brought into the room to discuss our children.
We the parents affected have been completely ignored.
This is another slap in the face in our ongoing fight for justice for our children failed by this scoliosis scandal.
#Shameful #insulting
@SimonHarrisTD @CarrollJennifer
irishexaminer.com/news/arid-…
ALT Image of Irish examiner and the headline “CHI spinal surgery review incomplete three years after concerns were raised.
Julie Anne Cunneen retweeted
Please Listen & Please Share - Govt Is Attempting To Reverse Engineer The Law To Make Their Illegal ‘Assessment Of Need’ Legal By Amending Disability Act - Removing The Right To AON & Permitting Unqualified HSE Administrators Review #Disabled Citizens Medical Records - #Ableist
#StopTheBill The Govt’s Disability (Amendment) Bill will significantly Dilute the One and Only Legal Right #Disabled Irish Citizens have -The Right to Assessment of Need -This #Ableist Bill proposes that Unqualified HSE Administrators will review #Disabled Citizens Medical Files
Julie Anne Cunneen retweeted
#StopTheBill The Govt’s Disability (Amendment) Bill will significantly Dilute the One and Only Legal Right #Disabled Irish Citizens have -The Right to Assessment of Need -This #Ableist Bill proposes that Unqualified HSE Administrators will review #Disabled Citizens Medical Files
Julie Anne Cunneen retweeted
WALK IN OUR SHOES – DUBLIN PRESS CONFERENCE
Yesterday, Walk In Our Shoes 2026 held its Dublin press conference ahead of the 26 county walks this Sunday and our National Walk in Dublin next Wednesday.
#WalkInOurShoes #WalkInOurShoes2026 #FamilyCourtReform
