Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 June 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport

Photo of Shane RossShane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I said, perhaps before the Deputy came in, the funding for the accessibility retrofit programme will increase from €4 million in 2018 to €7 million this year, €7 million next year and €10 million in the following year. That means the allocation between 2019 and 2021 will have trebled from €9 million to €27.8 million. That has been used for wheelchair-accessible taxis and for railway stations fairly successfully. I can get the details for the Deputy; they are in my brief somewhere. I do not have the details of the ones that have been done under me, but I can get them.

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