Sir, - Perhaps RTE (or interested parties) might wish to follow up on its excellent production by engineering into the State's provision for the most mentally handicapped - who will never be able to relate accounts of abuse.
The source therefore must be the parents, most of whom would gladly talk about the State's mistreatment, lack of appropriate services (i.e., educational, training, occupational, residential, respite etc.) and general neglect over numerous decades. As the father of a severely autistic 14-year-old, may I be the first to proffen my experience of any interested party. - Yours, etc.,
John Hanlon BL, 225 Ryevale Lawns, Leixlip, Co. Kildare