Kevin O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I do not think the witness will get an easy offer from Mr. O'Leary.

I welcome the opportunity to listen to the deliberations and I thank the people for coming in and taking time out to attend. This is being broadcast live and there are plenty of people watching us at the moment.

We have had these discussions over the last few months with the various interest groups and we welcome the further submissions.

Mr. Delaney raised a few issues from my own back yard about Horgan's Quay in Cork city which is a bit of a joke. I would suggest, Chairman, that the secretary might forward the snag list of Mr. Delaney's letter to the NTA for further comment. We are totally in agreement as to problems and we should have further comment from the NTA on the whole issue; it might refer back then to the respective operators.

On taxis, I know that Mr. Delaney wants to make every public transport vehicle wheelchair accessible. We need to be careful. Any taxi that would be disability accessible would be mostly a minibus type vehicle.