A resident of Camphill in Ballytobin says she doesn’t want it to change.
Brianna Hurley has spoken out today against HIQA and their move to close the facility.
Camphills registration will be formally cancelled this afternoon with the HSE taking charge instead.
Brianna, who has autism, has penned a letter to the HSE describing her heartbreak over the loss of the volunteers known as ‘co-workers’ that worked for so many years with the community.
She told KCLR Live this morning how important the volunteers at the community are to her saying “People from all over the world do such a good deed in coming to Ballytobin and improving peoples disabilities. When I first came there, I wasn’t as confident as I am now. And I wasn’t as independent, but they taught me….I mean they don’t have to be an employee to teach me to be amazing”.
Meanwhile an online petition has been started in an attempt to get HIQA to change their minds.
More than 2,600 people have already signed the petition which you can access below…
https://www.change.org/p/minister-for-state-for-disability-issues-finian-mc-grath-save-camphill-ballytobin
