Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Jodie McGriele:

The Wayfinding Centre is due to open in quarter 3 of this year. It is funded by the National Transport Authority, NTA, and is a training space. It is just up from our head office and is a training space for people with disabilities, so there will be all different types of public transportation within the building - trams, trains, planes, automobiles - where we can simulate emergency evacuations and can desensitise people. We can travel-train people with disabilities to confidently use public transportation. The second prong of that is also to train transportation companies themselves around awareness of people with disabilities and how they might respond to somebody with a disability or be able to assist somebody with a disability on public transportation.

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