The McKennas have not been able to bring their daughter, Orla, home since the pandemic began.
Peggy and Seamus McKenna are grateful for their family - but someone has been missing for the last 20 months.
Before the pandemic, she came home to her parents every weekend. She was known and loved in her community. Mrs McKenna said that she was "all for people and everybody's life matters," but also asked the Belfast Trust: "Where's my child's life coming into this... my child's civil rights and her rights to be a human being?"Peggy McKenna holds a mug with a picture of her daughter which was a gift from Orla
"Years ago, when we were young if there was a person with a learning disability they weren't advertised but you'd have seen them at the window looking out.
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