The Disable Inequality Campaign has launched a new virtual opinion poll to allow people with disabilities vote on which party leader best responds to their issues.

The group wants it to measure disability awareness in political circles.

The poll is being run on Facebook and Twitter and will remain open until the polling stations close next Friday.

There are 600,000 people living in Ireland with a disability.

John Dolan, Disable Inequality Campaign Director has said most of them are being ignored:

“Thankfully not everyone with a disability has a very severe disability, but everyone with one faces issues in relation to income, more likely to be living in poverty, very difficult to be able to participate, more likely to be excluded, because they can’t get by the various barriers that are there.

“And that impinges on the hope they have or will have for any kind of a decent life.”