Mr. Joe McGrath:

My biggest problem is that people with intellectual disabilities and people who are non-verbal need to be considered. They are the people with whom I come in contact every day. This is my second or third time feeding into the joint committee on specific issues concerning local government and policymaking decisions. If you do not let people with intellectual disabilities have their say, be it women, men, or young teenagers, then Members in the Dáil who are making policy changes to everything will not be getting the true picture because not everybody has access to the Internet in their houses or local communities. Where I come from in east Clare I have access to the Internet but I put it in myself, because the national platform was not working from people's homes or where they were living. That is how we have happened to get some of our work done so far, because we have not met face to face since the pandemic.