Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 7 February 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

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

9:30 am

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

It was definitely the NTA. It is not a like-with-like situation. I am happy to go back and look at the notes I have. If I am wrong, I am fine with that. The one thing we do not want to do is go backwards. That is the point I want to make.

The response to one of the questions I asked was that there was a pilot study done on retrofitting, which was done up to ten years ago. Could the Minister dig out that report for us? If it was costed, what information is there on it? I presume the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport had sight of it.

On the rolling stock, we heard that the ramps have to be locked away because of potential anti-social behaviour and the risk of people throwing them onto rail lines. How is that done without having staffing in stations? It is difficult to marry the two.

The Minister told us in his opening statement that the Department is doing a report which is amalgamating a lot of reports. I think that is useful. It is better that we are working to one document so we can measure outcomes. When is the Department likely to complete that report? Will he make it public?

One of the questions we have been asking on the public information campaign on the buggy and wheelchair space, is whether it is a question of empowering bus drivers or of changing the culture of the public? I would like to hear the Minister's views on that.

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