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)
Ms Anne Graham:
We recognise that is not the level of service on the commercial services. A good proportion of our services are operated without a subsidy and we need to bring the standard on those services up and put in place conditions requiring them to provide an accessible service. However, it will generally be low-floor on commercial services in urban areas. It may have to be high-floor coaches for a period until there is fleet available on the market suitable for long-distance services that can take luggage as well as a wheelchair user. It is about balancing that but such fleet is not really available on the market. It is certainly our ambition that are own services will be offered on a fully low-floor fleet so that people can just turn up and go.
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