'This is institutionalised living. I feel like I’ve been dumped here. I want to integrate back into the community'
On the inside of disability activist Kayleigh McKevitt’s right arm is a tattoo of DC comic book character Harley Quinn.
“With the housing crisis, it gets bleaker every day. I always fought so hard to be seen as equal but the Government doesn’t think about people like me. I feel worthless.” “I never intended being stuck here,” continues Kayleigh, whose passions are written large on her walls, where she’s hung photo collages of family and friends next to paintings by her favourite Aboriginal artists.
She has written a number of letters to Dublin City Council asking to be put on a priority housing list for a home closer to family and friends so she’s not so isolated. She added: “They’re my PA – I don’t like to say carers as it implies I need to be taken care of but I don’t – I need some assistance.”Care assistants leaving in their droves because of bad pay and conditions at a time when demand is soaring mean people like Kayleigh can’t access “social” hours, enabling them to live more independent lives. She said: “Trying to get my needs met is a full-time job. I have my friend Paddy Burke, the IWA co-ordinator, and I love him. He can’t do enough for me.
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