Alliance Party sends condolences to DPA on shock death of new President
Alliance Party Media Release – For Immediate Release – Friday February 6th, 2009

The Alliance Party has joined other political parties in paying tribute and extending condolences to DPA (Disabled Persons Assembly) upon the sudden death of their new President Eamon Daly earlier this week.

“This news has stunned the disability community, particularly given that Mr Daly had just been elected the leader of New Zealand’s peak disability rights organisation in October last year,” says Chris Ford, Alliance Party Disabilities spokesperson and who is also an active member of DPA.

“The Alliance Party wishes to extend our condolences to the movement that he led for such a short time and to his family and friends over his loss. At the time of his death, and from speaking to people within DPA, he was beginning to show promise in the role and his early death will now rob the disability rights movement in this country of a man who had a wide breadth of political experience and this is something that the movement badly needs in times like we face now with a National-led Government whose neglect of disability issues is beginning to show at such an early stage,” said Mr Ford.

Mr Daly’s funeral was held in Christchurch on Thursday.

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