Seán Kenny (Dublin North East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms Guinan for her opening statement and I wish her every success in her new role. I have some questions on access to services for people with disabilities. I am a member of the Committee on Transport and Communications and my interests therefore overlap. Some public bus service operators still do not provide wheelchair access. Safety is an issue for people with disabilities and an incident this summer in Raheny, where I live, comes to mind. An elderly blind woman went to the DART station, stumbled off the platform in front of a train and was killed. This was a tragedy and, though it was the kind of thing that can happen, it raises the question of the safety of people with visual impairment and physical disabilities. Perhaps the National Disability Authority could address these matters.