Mr. John Dolan:

Senator Mullen talked about the issue of that particular vulnerability. I think he has represented well what I have been presenting. That is my comment on that.

In response to Deputy Kenny, public opinion around disability has shifted in my lifetime. It has shifted on the back of seeing some disabled people being able to push themselves out there. I have seen it here in Dublin, people who were in wheelchairs, who bummed themselves up the steps of inaccessible buses and embarrassed the living daylights out of the provider. That is one example. The shift in public opinion comes afterwards. It is the "Oh, I never thought"; that is the way it happens.

On supporting people with regard to the issues they have, the issue that I have put here is not to say "it will address this or that". People want to see the change first in how they are able to live.