Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Road Safety Authority representatives were in with us and transport committee as well, and they brought up the issue of parking on kerbs and footpaths. There is often this belief motorists have that they need to keep the carriageway free for other cars, so they park on the footpath. I say block the other cars and then it is car against car.

I wish to raise one other issue. This committee recently produced a report on dereliction and vacancy. We had an extensive range of meetings with many practitioners, researchers and academics. We want to bring the second and third floors of buildings back into habitable use again. It was raised that there are practicalities about how to make that space fully accessible, or is that a requirement of it? I would like to get a sense from our guests of how they feel about that.