Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 31 January 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed)

1:30 pm

Mr. Hugh Creegan:

The Deputy is right with regard to wheelchair-accessible taxis. There is a different percentage in different counties. We started this grant scheme a couple of years ago. Our target was to raise the number of wheelchair-accessible vehicles overall. It had reached a worryingly low level of 860 a couple of years ago. We have increased it to 1,550. That is still not enough. Providing targeted grants for specific counties is quite difficult. It can create tensions within the industry. It is something we can look at further but we are still keen on raising it not just in specific counties but across all the counties.

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