Mr. Ger Deering:

Certainly, that is the case in the short term. If our public transport system was what we might want it to be then it might suit their needs. For example, if I needed a ramp at a particular DART station today, I would have to know what time I was leaving Leinster House and book it in advance, or the problem could be the last mile I had to travel. It might not seem much to somebody that a person's house is a mile from a train station or in a rural area, or that it is ten miles from a train station. It is the last link that is the difficulty. Until we have fully accessible public transport, and we are quite a distance from that, then people need personal assistance to manage their own affairs and be able to travel in a manner that is accessible to them and at a time that suits them too.