#scrapthegreenpaper — Public Fediverse posts

Thank you Daniella Bella for speaks on behalf of us and #ScrapTheGreenPaper at #DisabilityPride 2024

Scrapping the Green Paper is definitely one of the highlights for us this year

#DisabledWomenIreland
#DisabilityPowerIreland
#Access4AllIreland
#ChronicCollective
#ORDAOpposeReformOfDisabilityAllowance
#PraxisUnion

https://youtu.be/a8TVIhrxA-Q

11am TODAY Wed 17/4 Leinster House

Disabled people demand the Irish Government: Introduce Non Means Tested Universal Pay

#ScrapTheGreenPaper

#WeScrappedTheGreenPaper

#ScrapMeansTestedDisabilityPayments

#NonMeansTestedUniversalPay

Statement
shorturl.at/lFLTU

You can find the full accessibility notes for our event tomorrow Wednesday April 17th here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTIkKQMMb7ktuPxg30KzV0etQJxKf2IK4pJj6bCh39MksPPVgaNlUGkvLCEoDitDxBLGyMzdufeQC32/pub

#ScrapTheGreenPaper #WeScrappedTheGreenPaper #ScrapMeansTestedDisabilityPayments #NonMeansTestedUniversalPay

Victory for disability activists - Green paper scrapped ! https://www.onebigunion.ie/post/victory-for-disability-activists-green-paper-scrapped

#scrapthegreenpaper

Change of plan
We will no longer have a press conference on Thurs

Now we will be outside Leinster House
11am Wed 17th April

With our rally cry that Disabled people demand the Irish Government: Introduce Non Means Tested Universal Pay

#ScrapTheGreenPaper
#WeScrappedTheGreenPaper
#ScrapMeansTestedDisabilityPayments
#NonMeansTestedUniversalPay

Statement
https://shorturl.at/lFLTU

Implementation of such must be created by consulting with the disabled community and its representative organisations (DPOs) throughout the process (in line with State obligations under the UNCRPD).

#ScrapTheGreenPaper
#WeScrappedTheGreenPaper
#NonMeansTestedUniversalPay

Wondering what's next for us?

Well, this Thursday the ‘Scrap the Green Paper’ Coalition will be holding a press conference as a result of Government’s decision to scrap the Green Paper proposal for disability payment reform

#ScrapTheGreenPaper

#WeScrappedTheGreenPaper

#NonMeansTestedUniversalPay

“Government to scrap Green Paper on disability reform following backlash from activists” “The proposal would have created a tier system for Disability Allowance”

https://www.thejournal.ie/government-scrapping-disability-green-paper-6353319-Apr2024 #ScrapTheGreenPaper #Disabled #chronicillness

@mecfs @longcovid @chronicillness @spoonies @disability @disabilityjustice
#mecfs #cfs #pwme
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5-minute interview.

It includes discussion of the future e.g. he calls for a non-means tested disability payment

https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22383771/

#ScrapTheGreenPaper #Disabled #chronicillness @mecfs

#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME @longcovid
#LongCovid #PwLC @chronicillness
@spoonies
@disability
@disabilityjustice

Phew. Thank you all. See our last post for our full statement on today's massive news that the Green Paper has been scrapped, but we wanted to post an image to mark the day. Scraps deserves a rest after the last seven months

#ScrapTheGreenPaper #ScrappedTheGreenPaper

The Scrap The Green Paper statement on today's massive win for disabled rights

https://docs.google.com/document/u/5/d/e/2PACX-1vTzeAvwZUzGB055-py3vZibpWJ_rHuszFPhk3SsSE2GohghPl6myVc1roarzG7zcDbRgXlQqBNRH1_Q/pub

#ScrapTheGreenPaper #ScrappedTheGreenPaper

‘There are significant concerns’: Plans to change disability welfare benefits scrapped

The controversial green paper contained proposals to introduce three different levels of disability benefits

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/04/12/government-to-scrap-plan-to-change-social-welfare-benefits-for-people-with-disabilities/

#ScrapTheGreenPaper #Disabled #chronicillness @chronicillness
@spoonies
@disability
@disabilityjustice
@mecfs

#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME @longcovid
#LongCovid #PwLC

Government to scrap controversial Green Paper on disability reform after backlash

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/government-to-scrap-controversial-green-paper-on-disability-reform-after-backlash/a113589449.html

A success for all those who campaigned in some way or made submissions complaining about the proposals

#ScrapTheGreenPaper #Disabled #chronicillness
@mecfs

#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME @longcovid
#LongCovid #PwLC @chronicillness
@spoonies
@disability
@disabilityjustice

Yesterday the Dáil nominated Simon Harris TD of Fine Gael to be the new Taoiseach, with the support of Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, the Green Party, and Independents

This is a thread about #ScrapTheGreenPaper's reaction, and Scrap-related national politics stuff <1/x>

This paper makes false assumptions about access to workplaces. Instead of starting with making workplaces more accessible, they propose threatening the payments of some of our most vulnerable, though the government denies anybody will lose their payments, contrary to the implication of the Green Paper.

We are in need of disability related income reform, but this is not the way.

Simon Harris said its time for a new energy, let’s prove it.

#ScrapTheGreenPaper

The government’s proposals will not lift most disabled people out of poverty, only endanger the mental and physical health of disabled people by increasing demands on us to go through a job seeker process not intended for us, which international evidence suggests will not work.

#ScrapTheGreenPaper

We believe that with a change in cabinet, it is the perfect time for a change in direction.

Although their appointment has not changed we are calling on the Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys to Scrap the Green Paper on Disability Reform.

#ScrapTheGreenPaper

As well as helping with our submission to the consultation on the green paper on disability reform, our secretary Orla Ní Chomhraí has written a personal submission.

She has given permission for it to be shared. See:
https://1drv.ms/w/s!AoHfldspRkWU1Kl6dHj-8HsFhiUEPQ?e=xbdKI5

#ScrapTheGreenPaper @mecfs #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #disability @spoonies @chronicillness @disability @disabilityjustice

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Fearful of being abandoned by an “impersonal system,” Una says previous experience has taught her that becoming eligible for the supports she desperately requires is not as straightforward as it should be.

#ScrapTheGreenPaper
@mecfs @disability @disabilityjustice

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“I am a ‘malingerer’ until I can prove myself disabled. The onus is squarely on me to prove I cannot work - as if the fact that I am not working is not proof enough”

#ScrapTheGreenPaper
@mecfs #disabled #disability @disability @disabilityjustice

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“Plunged back into the nightmare of the disability system assessment. I am not as lucky as a criminal – who is assumed to be innocent until proven guilty. Where the burden of proof is on the accuser.”

#ScrapTheGreenPaper #MEcfs #PwME
@mecfs

A piece on Ocean Fm about the Green Paper

https://oceanfm.ie/2024/03/15/criticism-over-three-tiered-disability-payment/

#ScrapTheGreenPaper

Article in the Wexford People by Una Hearne about the Green Paper

https://independent.ie/regionals/wexford/wexford-district/wexford-woman-fears-disability-reforms-will-see-her-abandoned-by-the-state-i-am-a-malingerer-until-i-can-prove-myself-disabled/a332741455.html

#ScrapTheGreenPaper

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Well done to one of our members, Una Hearne, for getting this substantial article into her local paper

Paywall:
https://www.independent.ie/regionals/wexford/wexford-district/wexford-woman-fears-disability-reforms-will-see-her-abandoned-by-the-state-i-am-a-malingerer-until-i-can-prove-myself-disabled/a332741455.html

Una previously made a submission to the consultation on the green paper:
https://1drv.ms/w/s!AoHfldspRkWU1JEtmp7UU5SNjQXdXA?e=FwpMzp

#ScrapTheGreenPaper @mecfs

#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME @chronicillness
@spoonies
@disability
@disabilityjustice

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2-minute audio piece on Ocean FM:
“Criticism over potential three-tiered disability payment”

“She argues that illnesses can prove unpredictable and challenging”
https://www.oceanfm.ie/2024/03/15/criticism-over-three-tiered-disability-payment

#ScrapTheGreenPaper #disability #disabled @disability @disabilityjustice @chronicillness @spoonies

A really good article by Ross PJ Boyd on Spunout about the Green Paper

https://spunout.ie/voices/opinion/worried-governments-proposal-disability-reform/

#ScrapTheGreenPaper

Rabharta have posted their Green Paper concerns as a medium article

https://medium.com/@rabharta/submission-green-paper-on-disability-reform-9d26aee3e006

#ScrapTheGreenPaper

#disability #ScrapTheGreenPaper #care #ireland #IrishPolitics #WorkersAreCarers #CarersAreWorkers #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

Disability rights activists hold rally in Dublin following Care referendum result

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/disability-rights-activists-hold-rally-165723609.html

#ScrapTheGreenPaper @disability @disabilityjustice #disabled #disability

Two videos produced by 13wandering on Instagram and TikTok about attending the #ScrapTheGreenPaper rally and about the Green Paper

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4eZuCNqDTi/?igsh=enFkN2R6bjF2OW96

https://www.tiktok.com/@13wandering/video/7346016935915605290?_t=8keyoCW76Q2&_r=1

A thread of coverage from over the last few weeks and days of the campaign to #ScrapTheGreenPaper

Politicians and activists rally against 'ableist' government proposals on disability allowance
Campaigners fear some disabled people could be forced to work when they cannot.

https://www.thejournal.ie/activists-decry-govt-green-paper-that-proposes-a-recategorisation-of-disabled-people-6324821-Mar2024/

#ScrapTheGreenPaper @chronicillness
@spoonies
@disability
@disabilityjustice
#chronicillness
#chroniclife
#ChronicPain
#Spoonielife
#hiddenillness
#invisibleillness
#ChronicIllnesses
#Spoonies
#Spoonie
#Disabled
#Disability

51-second video plus text:
Disability rights campaigners have staged a small protest in Dublin city centre calling on the Government to scrap the Green Paper on Disability Reform.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/0312/1437499-green-paper-protest

#ScrapTheGreenPaper @chronicillness
@spoonies
@disability
@disabilityjustice
#chronicillness
#chroniclife
#ChronicPain
#Spoonielife
#hiddenillness
#invisibleillness
#ChronicIllnesses
#Spoonies
#Spoonie
#Disabled
#Disability

Today, Tuesday March 12th, across from the GPO on O'Connell Street at 12PM!

The government want to start putting pressure on disabled people to work, even if they are now trying to walk back the harshness of the language in the green paper. Let's tell them it's still unacceptable!

#ScrapTheGreenPaper

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Our submission* to the consultation on the green paper on disability reform.

<https://1drv.ms/b/s!AoHfldspRkWU1J5SRMLKgDgkSPwROQ?e=ehgYCx>
or
<https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/q80e7cs11bn04nlcozir5/Green-paper-submission-version-17.pdf?rlkey=b2s39vu35bdok1c2kv7geggis&dl=0>

#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #ScrapTheGreenPaper
@mecfs

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#ScrapTheGreenPaper
@chronicillness @spoonies @disability @disabilityjustice @mecfs

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#ScrapTheGreenPaper

@chronicillness @spoonies @disability @disabilityjustice @mecfs

(Ireland)

This is an easy to read summary of the green paper on disability reform that is out for consultation.

https://www.gov.ie/pdf/?file=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.gov.ie%2F270940%2F581637ed-ada2-4cb4-a913-efb099245992.pdf&fbclid=IwAR2Ithrzv1BCYvpqdhq0wKO7AYzrFem9vMOK7q7i3WYyQNn6H6E1DFQw1HU#page=null

With just 2 weeks to go to the deadline for submissions, this document I think is a good place to start if you haven't started reading.

#ScrapTheGreenPaper
@chronicillness
@spoonies
@disability
@disabilityjustice
@mecfs

#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME

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My new blog post:

Comments from an ME/CFS perspective on “The Green Paper on Disability Reform:a flawed effort to reform payments for people with disabilities" (Cousins)

https://forums.phoenixrising.me/blog-articles/comments-from-an-me-cfs-perspective-on-the-green-paper-on-disability-reform-a-flawed-effort-to-reform-payments-for-people-with-disabilities-cousins.3482/

#ScrapTheGreenPaper #MEcfs #CFS #PwME
@mecfs
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome @chronicillness
@spoonies
@disability
@disabilityjustice

Last week Reboot Republic talked to organisers Maryam Madani from Disability Power Ireland and Gillian Kearns from Neuro Pride Ireland about the coalition and the #ScrapTheGreenPaper https://open.spotify.com/episode/1vg4h6tH0FulbpHxacClbA #DisabilityRights #Ireland #DisabilityRightsAreHumanRights

On my way to the #ScrapTheGreenPaper (on #disabilityreform) protest outside Leinster House (which houses the Irish parliament). These proposals if implemented would make life a lot more difficult for many with #disabilities and disabling illnesses. 😡

@disabilities @disability @disabilityjustice @mecfs @chronicillness @spoonie #chronicillness #disability

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While not definite,I'm still hoping to go to this.

I haven't located anything red yet to wear.I think I’ll wear a blue ribbon to highlight I have ME
& also where my invisible disability lanyard around my neck (though I will either be in a wheelchair or mobility scooter).I might bring some more blue ribbons if I remember in case anyone wants one on the day.Do come up & say hi if you see me #ScrapTheGreenPaper
@disability @disabilityjustice @spoonies @mecfs

Stop proposed 'categorizing of disabled people' for welfare payments in Ireland

https://www.change.org/p/stop-proposed-categorizing-of-disabled-people-for-welfare-payments-in-ireland #Disability #DisabilityReform #Ireland #ScrapTheGreenPaper #DisabilityRights

Get involved 👉

'Artists with Disabilities - Rights, Work and Welfare’, a briefing and policy consultation on proposed Disability Reforms.

Livestream link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKsav-Xl3iU

Today Wed the 29th 11-1pm #DisabilityRights #Ireland #artist #DisabilityReform #ScrapTheGreenPaper #DisabledArtist

Get involved 👉 Green Paper on Disability Reform Public Consultation - Online

Sign up for our online public consultation event on disability reform. Organised by the Department of Social Protection.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/green-paper-on-disability-reform-public-consultation-online-tickets-761222606307? #ScrapTheGreenPaper #disability #HumanRights #DisabilityRights #DisabilityReform #Ireland

Get involved 👉#ScrapTheGreenPaper

Via Neuro Pride Ireland:
Sign and Share the petition showing that you oppose the Green Paper on Disability Reform
https://tinyurl.com/petition-STGP

We are hoping to get to 2,000 before our protest on Thursday 7th December

Scrap the Green Paper Coalition will present this to the Oireachtas at the protest on 7th Dec

More Info
https://beacons.ai/scrapthegreenpaper