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Replace the Lunacy Act

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Antoinette norris
10 years ago

My daughter us 18 just transitioned into adult services whst a joke no transport shes had no physio and no speach tberapy and no help ivd exhausted every avenue

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Pat Sharkey
10 years ago

ireland is a disgrace.

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John Fitzgerald
10 years ago

Action is needed

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Miriam murphy
11 years ago

People with disabilities in Ireland have the right to equal citizenship in our own country

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Helena Prendergast
11 years ago

My granddaughter was born with Down syndrome and to refer her to a lunatic is the greatest insult to her and her entire famely, she is clever , funny and bright as a button

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Fionnuala Minto
11 years ago

Modern Ireland has no place for this.

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Ash Lambe
11 years ago

Replace the Lunacy Act

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Tyrone Tuohy
11 years ago

It looks like this will be sucessful!

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gerard minogue
11 years ago

i feel that lunacy act should not be there

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Caoimhin Mac Giolla Phadraig
11 years ago

long overdue

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David Egan
11 years ago

this Act must be abolished

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Helen Egan
11 years ago

my little don who is 5 has down syndrome, that is why i am signing the petition it's about time this act was gotten rid of .

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Sarah Landers
11 years ago

Thmm

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Anna Asgharian
11 years ago

Lets help move Ireland into the 21st Century and remove this arcahic law!

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Paula Loughlin
11 years ago

We no longer live in Victorian times but need to treat all our citzens with respect and dignity and therefore this Act needs to be replaced quickly.

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Pat
11 years ago

needs to be repealed along with any other antiquated laws

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Dave Mulleady
11 years ago

The repeal of the lunacy act is long overdue.

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Una Sheehan
11 years ago

This ratification of the UN Convention is long overdue, not just 8 years. It may have been brought in to limit the property rights of women that had been given a boost in 1870 UK law,- the Married Womens' Property Act, to protect women from fortune hunters getting their assets on marriage, but since then this 1871 has indeed facilitated professional executors acquiring assets intended for heirs 'of so-called unsound mind' allegedly, to administer 'in trust' be executors who benefit unscrupulously from such transactions, to the cost of the true heirs. Given the date, March 30th 2007, just before 'the Crash' came, would the delay in ratifying the CPRD have thrown a new and unfavourable light on the acquisition of the property rights of heirs under trusts and wills made while benefactor was of 'unsound mind' e.g. with Alzheimers, and is this still part of the reason for continuing delay in Irish Governnment signing up the COnvention into Irish Law, would this necessitate modification of the 1964 Succession Act?

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Una Sheehan
11 years ago Featured

Long overdue, in Minister for Justice's in-tray since December 2013! Gap in law between this 1871 outdated Lunacy Act (brought in year after Married Womens Property Actr, to curb it, and Irfeland's Succession 1964 Act, so people can be stripped ofd their rights to inherit using this hidden gap in Irish law.

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Pascale Claes
11 years ago Featured

My grandson is not an "idiot", he is very clever. He is not a "Lunatic", he is probably saner than I am. And he has a very sound mind. So why should he be treated differently than me. Why should he be denied his rights?