Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 4 December 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children
Best Practice Access Guidelines: Irish Wheelchair Association
11:25 am
Mr. Chris Hoey:
There is an extension to what we are trying to do and it refers back to what Senator Colm Burke said in some respects. We have a plan for where we want to bring this. At present, we are in the awareness, information, launching and partnerships stage, but we are moving quickly into the local engagement, the local response and so forth. Ultimately, we are trying to put in place a service into which anybody can tap, be it the national children's hospital, the National Rehabilitation Hospital, schools, community groups or whatever. They can ask us to look at their premises so they will be able to do it in a professional and speedy way, with very practical solutions. Over the next number of months we are moving towards making that service available. However, there is no point in us making a service available to bring about systemic change if nobody knows about it. We are in the phase of letting everybody know we are available and the door is open.
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