Ms Ruth O'Reilly:

Walkability audits are essentially user audits of roads or streets where a group of people with a wide range of abilities, disabilities and different ages select an important route in their locality. They walk it with a co-ordinator and identify things that make life difficult on a day-to-day basis, whether that is crossing the road, badly maintained footpaths or ones that are not wide enough. That is then recorded. The co-ordinator writes up a report and submits it to the local authority. In 2020, we were involved, along with Green Schools and Age-Friendly Ireland, in working with the National Transport Authority, NTA, to develop a universal design walkability audit tool that has been on its website.