Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 April 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Tom ClonanTom Clonan (Independent) | Oireachtas source

In your survey, will you ask them to indicate whether or not, in this 28-year-old woman's case, they would take her to the airport or not? It is completely unacceptable.

On another small matter, I tried to search the list of wheelchair accessible taxis on the Transport for Ireland website. There is some problem whereby you cannot get into it. It keeps verifying whether or not you are a robot. That is also inaccessible. You cannot access the search. That could be something temporary but I say it so the witnesses know.

I understand our infrastructure is old but last week I was in Vienna. The network of urban rail and trains was built on the Austro-Hungarian emperor's orders, I think about 200 years ago, and they are all fully accessible. Engineering should be able to resolve this. The witnesses have said they are working on this. This is nothing personal to Mr. Kenny. He and I go back a very long way, but the DART and Iarnród Éireann are inaccessible to somebody like my son. We do not use them and cannot use them because of the lifts and the requirement to inform the service 24 hours in advance of what time and station we will travel and return at.

As for the app Iarnród Éireann is designing, I have been getting texts and emails about that app for five or six years. How long has it been in development?

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