
Amy Hassett
Disability rights campaigner, co-director/co-chair of Disabled Women Ireland, and RTÉ science broadcaster and neuroscience PhD candidate at UCD.
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Sep 7, 2026
The Cost of Exclusion: Why Does Being Disabled Cost More?
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Derval McDonaghHOST
But if you were to kind of wave your magic wand, what do you feel needs to change at government and also society level to make a real difference here?

Amy HassettGUEST
Cost of disability payment is a really important step and it's really useful because all the system change in the world is not going to, I guess, cover those costs entirely, right? All amount of system change just won't cut us because there's always going to be something, right? There's a million things that come to my mind in my own life of where...

Amy HassettGUEST
I've had to take a taxi because for whatever reason I couldn't take public transport.

Amy HassettGUEST
There's been times where I've dropped a laptop while sitting in the wheelchair and because I'm kind of far away from the ground, it's broken and smashed and I've had to pay for that or trying to kind of hold something and push a wheelchair at the same time.
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Derval McDonaghHOST
What would you advise our members and listeners to do to make sure that this issue gets the attention it deserves in the lead up to budget now on the 6th of October?