Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

A huge amount of money would have been spent on designing these machines. They will not be easily retrofitted to make them accessible so this work should have been done. Re-turn Ireland won a contract or was the designated body that the Government established to run the scheme. I gather from what the Minister of State has said is that there was no direct consultation with the likes of the Irish Wheelchair Association and Vision Ireland. Those stakeholders were asked to consult in the same way as individuals were asked but there was no actual direct consultation with those groups. Is that correct?