Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 13 June 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed)
9:30 am
Ms Diane Hill:
There are 10,000 cards in circulation. We started to provide them in 2011. Since the app was developed, there have been 1,000 downloads. We can track when they are used; they are used throughout the world. For the card, we have done a great deal of work on the community aspect in Northern Ireland.
We have not done any community work in Ireland because the training is based on UK legislation, so it would have to be transposed into Irish legislation. We have done a lot of work with that. Basically, people hold up either the card or the app. For us it is about organisation and encouraging the use of the card. If one gets on a bus or train in Northern Ireland one can see the JAM Card logo so people are encouraged to use it. People are trained on how to recognise it throughout many organisations in Northern Ireland.
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