Robert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

One of the things we need to understand, and this applies to the whole work of the CRC and other organisations that deal with people with a disability, is that it is exceedingly difficult for parents to engage in public meetings. The people who went to those meetings yesterday had great difficulty in getting there. That is an issue that is not sufficiently appreciated by any of us, even by myself, even though I have worked closely with people like that over ten years.