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:
I could not agree more. As a result of the local launches, we have enhanced some of the partnerships. We have made submissions to Kildare and Wicklow county councils as part of their housing and access programmes. A number of councillors in Navan, including the chairman of Meath council, are going to sit in wheelchairs and go around the towns and so forth. Deputy Byrne referred to transition year students. That can be very useful in the moment, but unfortunately 24 hours later something else happens. It is great to get the publicity but we need to go further than people just getting into wheelchairs and realising there is a problem getting off a certain footpath. It is about coming up with solutions.
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