Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 May 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters
Living with a Disability: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Padraic Moran:
The Green Party is doing loads of great things about transport and so on, but where is its disabled transport policy? It is not there. There is a party in government that is advocating for all this change to make the world better. It will be better for able-bodied people but not for disabled people, and that is a fundamental problem. The Green Party is in government and its members are legislators. It is making transport more inaccessible for a huge proportion of our citizens. It thinks that is okay. We might be seen as a bigger voting threat now because there are more of us but in the past we were not seen as that and that is a major problem. Mr. Delaney gave me a statistic to the effect that wheelchair taxis will not be fully accessible until 2060.
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