Mr. Eddie Redmond:

The presentations were great. Unfortunately, I am not surprised by what has been said. Everybody experiences issues in different ways, but the discrimination is very clear for everyone. As deaf people, we tend to focus on communication barriers. I referred to deaf awareness and visibility awareness training, and that may come. Funding is an issue in providing the training and the Irish Deaf Society would not have sufficient resources to provide deaf awareness training to those bodies. There needs to be Government support to enhance that awareness and provide training.

Before Dublin Airport opened Terminal 2, it asked different organisations to have a look at accessibility issues and try to identify potential barriers. Five or six years later what we asked for at that time still have not come to fruition. We asked for live text to be made available but that has not happened. There is no signing notification either. Terminal 2 could have had these but the action did not follow the requests.

It can be frustrating that we are involved and are being asked for our views but things are not changing. It is the 21st century and there is still an attitude that we are not all included from the very beginning.