Mr. Damien Douglas:

The old system had its uses in some ways in that there was a need for a primary medical cert for certain situations and it probably worked. It obviously came about in a time when people with significant intellectual disabilities were put away in institutions and brought out in buses. The whole scenario has now changed with most people living at home, but they are prisoners in their homes because they do not have the means to give them the freedom to get out and about. The individualisation that is talked about is denied to them and their carers because they do not have the means for appropriate and adequate transport and a vehicle that meets their needs rather than what somebody else thinks they should have. We need a system that looks at the reality of people now.