25 May 2013 | 21:34
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Labour Party leader Joseph Muscat has announced a series of proposals that will be implemented by a Labour-led new Government, aiming that the prosperity in our country to be distributed with social justice.
During the seminar organised by the Labour Party at MFCC with the theme "A fair society", Dr Muscat said he will put the minds of parents of disabled children at rest whilst assuring a care system and residences in the community.
Dr Muscat said it is unacceptable that important decisions such as raising utility bills and selling the gas service are being undertaken without a serious study on how it will effect the Maltese and Gozitan families.
Dr Muscat stated that a new Labour-led government will operate with an "Open Government" concept in an open and transparent way.
"Thus, the New Government will work with facts to reinforce the concept of a fair society," Muscat said.
Dr. Muscat said that for the Labour Party, disabled people are at the forefront of the social agenda of our country and he proposed a care system in residential homes in the community.
The Labour leader said that as money was available for a new Parliament, so there should be money for the children of Maltese and Gozitan families.
Dr Muscat announced that the New Government will launch new tax measures for persons with disabilities and their families, by giving incentives on trusts, financial resources and inheritance assets left by parents and others to children with disability, so as to be used in the best interest of the child.
"Through these initiatives, we are bound to build and leave for future generations, a fair society so as our children will have a better future than us," said Dr Muscat.
Comments
PHILIP RIZZO
- Sat 02-Jun-2012, 09:14What parents of disabled children and adults are demanding.
The parents and families of disabled citizens number at least 8,000 and more likely 10/12,000 of the Maltese population [counting 2 parents + say 2 siblings + say 3 grand parents + say 3 other concerned uncles, aunts or in-laws ].
We feel that the following qualify as RIGHTS, rather than charity, and we demand them on behalf of our disabled relatives:
1. Lifelong therapeutical services from the very early weeks following the birth of an
infant with disability (initially preferably in the infant’s home and on set days without
fail) and subsequently delivered through holistic programmes.
2. Educational courses beyond the physical age of 16 as youths with disability retain a
mental age far younger than their chronological age.
3. Provision of living and support facilities when parents are no longer alive.
Thankfully, both the larger political parties appear to concur and state generically that there is so much more that Malta can and should do for our special children. Our children do not understand and entertain political thoughts but we, their parents and families, want much more than at present for our offspring and for others with similar challenges.
8,000 to 12,000 voters will in the next few months be expecting to compare the detail of the competing political parties’ specific plans and related timeframes in this sensitive field. The equally-committed political leaders need neither come into our kitchens nor invite us to meet them beneath a tent; it will suffice for them to ensure that each of the abovementioned rights is unequivocally entrenched in their own electoral manifesto.
Thorny
- Sat 02-Jun-2012, 08:17About time the word FAIR gets back into our vocabulary.... and JOSEPH MUSCAT is the man, the Leader to put it back in with meritocracy, accountability and VISION!