Dr. Mary-Clare O'Sullivan:

To follow up on Mr. Dolan’s point about the European angle to this, I came back yesterday from the two-day conference of the European cooperation network on elections in Brussels. There was a good session on access for people with disabilities including a talk from the vice president of the European disability forum and various other groups. A good deal of information was given on the research, indicators and data. One thing we can learn is that its research contains a great deal of information. We will have an ambitious research programme and we will want to speak to people here in Ireland and be broad about that. However, a good deal of work has been done already. We do not want to add another report on a shelf but pick up the many indicators already there that can help us in trying to make progress in this area.