Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 April 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Barry Kenny:

In terms of lifts, much work has been done. It is one of the most significant exposures and the examples the Senator gave for his son are absolutely illustrative of that. There were two thirds fewer lift faults in 2023 versus 2019. By the end of this year, with the NTA-funded programme, there will not be a lift on the network that is older than five years old. We had legacy lifts that simply were not fit for purpose and that suffered from repeated vandalism. That is something we are overcoming. Obviously, there is the new station design as well as that. As I said, we want to get it to zero, but there really has been quite a significant improvement there and we will continue to work on that.

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