IWA 2025 - Pre-Budget Submission

Our Pre-Budget submission highlights the serious gaps that still exist for people with disabilities when it comes to basic entitlements such as housing, independent living, transport access and pay parity for IWA frontline staff. 

Joan Carthy, Advocacy Manager for IWA points out that, “The Action Plan for Disability Service and the Cost of Disability report have still not been resourced and people with disabilities continue to live in extreme poverty and unable to access services.”

The EU average of GDP on Social protection is 2%, Ireland spends only 0.8% (the second lowest)

Ireland has 39.5% of disabled people living at risk of poverty and social exclusion (EU average 28.8%).

The disability employment rate in Ireland is 32.6% almost 20% below the EU average of 51.3%.

We are imploring the Government not to abandon people with disabilities in Budget 2025.

We ask you to join us in holding the Government accountable for promises they have made in the past and provisions they must make for our future. You can do this by emailing your local representative, full details are available here.

View and download the summary below or download our full Pre-Budget Submission Document also.