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Minister says disability equality act coming soon

Howard Quayle MHK

The Health Minister has responded to pleas for the Isle of Man to employ a disability equality act.

Howard Quayle says a bill to protect the Island's disabled will hopefully go out to public consultation this year, and has been on the cards for some time. 
 
This comes after a local woman with a disability contacted the media to try and get the problem back on the agenda. 
 
It's been 19-years since the UK implemented the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. 
 
Mr Quayle says it's important the private sector apply the changes when they come: 

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