Erin McGreehan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The officials are very welcome. This is an important meeting because if a person cannot get from A to B, then he or she cannot do anything. We talk about the importance of public transport, but there is no cohort of people to whom public transport is more important to than disabled people. There are so many blockages. I am a little more hesitant on the quickening of the roll-out than Deputy Leddin because what is perfectly adequate for an able-bodied person is not useful for somebody else. We must make it very clear that we cannot roll things out faster if we are going to block a whole cohort of people from using transport.

My first question is to both bodies. Let us say they had scorecards on how they are implementing the ethos of the UNCRPD, which is exactly what this committee is all about. It is about Article 9 and accessibility and creating a way for our public bodies to remove the social and State-imposed barriers to people moving around the country. What score would the officials give their respective bodies?