The first Irish Centre for Independent Living (CIL) was established in 1992 by and for people with disabilities, with the main aim of ensuring that people with disabilities achieved independent living, choice and control over their lives, and full participation in society as equal citizens. It offered an advocacy and campaigning respresentation role, striving to bring about a social model of service delivery, and to ensure policy decisions would include input from those whose lives were actually affected. It also held an action-research role in monitoring developments in the world of Independent Living.
