Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I share Deputy Canney's frustrations but I also have to look at this, as he says, in the round. We are coming from a base where we finally know where the gaps are. We must connect and identify them. When we talk about transport, the NTA and the community and then one talks about the individual, unless there are systems in place and proper frameworks, giving people all the money in the world would not matter if the infrastructure is not there for them to access. If we did not have taxi drivers regulated so that they must have wheelchair accessible minibuses, or if we had the NTA not giving out more licences than only one in a county, that does not meet the needs as well. I get the two sides of what Deputy Canney is saying.