Limerick Local Advocacy Group
Who We are
We are the service users in Limerick Adult Services, Quinn's Cross, Limerick
Our Mission
“The aim of Limerick Advocacy group is to have our voice heard, to share information, to make a difference at local and national level and to be involved in the decision making process within Enable Ireland”
What we do
Limerick Advocacy group is divided into two groups.
- Group 1. Trainees / Quantum Leap.
- Group 2. Day Services.
Our representatives at national level are Enda Gallagher and Trevor Kennedy.
We meet on a weekly or fortnightly basis. Carol Hanley is our Advocacy Facilitator. We discuss issues of concern to us. The minutes of these meetings are passed on to the Management Team. Responses and relevant information is referred back for our next meeting. Local issues are brought to national level by our reps and vice versa.
Our Goals
- To share information with all our Service Users.
- To continue to share in the decision making process within Enable Ireland
Current Activities
In the past year the Quantum Leap Self Advocacy Group in Limerick have been involved in the following activities:
- Worked with the Manager of the Crescent Shopping Centre in Limerick and had toilets renovated and shops in the Centre notified by Management on hazard of blocking aisles with packing material during business hours;
- Complained to (and received acknowledgement from) taxi regulator on unsafe practice of drivers not knowing how to or using tie down equipment;
- Wrote to (and had acknowledgement from) local hospital on disabled parking problems;
- Presently working with Limerick rail station on problems with parking, set-downs and using the trains;
- Group working as mentors to similar self-advocacy group in Limerick (but with people who have intellectual disabilities);
- Presently trying to work with local cinema on problems of no seating beside person with disability for PA
Contact Us
Quinn’s Cross
Mungret
Co. Limerick
Tel: (061) 301830
Fax: (061) 302394
