Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

It is hard, though. I am really conscious of my time, so the Minister of State might forgive me if I am cutting across him. If a blind person goes up to a machine to try to access it, there is no voice telling him or her what to do. There are no buttons, symbols or Braille or anything on the machine. The first time I used it, I was sort of standing there wondering what to do. If a person is blind, it is incredibly difficult to do that independently. I would consider that if the Government specified that these were to be accessible machines, the fact that someone who is visually impaired cannot use them and there is no assistance on the machines to enable them to do so clearly says the machines are not accessible and that Re-turn did not adhere to the directions of Government. In the event that Re-turn does not adhere, where is the accountability in that?