Mr. John Dolan:

I am glad the Chairman raised the Changing Places initiative. It is a sign of the development that has taken place over decades in terms of meeting the needs and expectations of people with disabilities. We have to understand, society must have that headset, that a Part M toilet, which is not a decent enough standard anyway, is the disabled toilet. Is it not great that people who have more extensive disabilities want to be out and about and their families also want them to be able to do so? We have to get it very simply into our heads and skulls that there has to be an infrastructure of these Changing Places facilities right around the country. Again, it is families and people themselves who actually got stuck into this. Inclusion Ireland, the Disability Federation of Ireland, DFI, and a number of others supported them over the years and the Chairman's former colleague in County Wicklow, Councillor Miriam Murphy, and others were deeply involved in it. It has been driven but, unfortunately, these things keep having to be driven from within the movement itself. It is important that we have an infrastructure of them right around the country, however.