Dr Margaret Kennedy

Dr Margaret Kennedy is a disability rights activist and co-founder of Cothrom.

She says she spent the last Budget Day in tears, and she’s now calling for personal assistance to be put on a statutory footing.

Margaret has also made a pre-Budget submission setting out why she believes this needs to happen.

“I spent last years budget day in tears, I cried all day long as I would defy any adult to have to sit in wet incontinence pads while listening to platitudes about disabled people from government ministers”