Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 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. Padraic Jones:
Our website is currently being reviewed to try to make it more user friendly. In the context of our community engagement bureau, the organisation has quite a number of areas to address. Even with community engagement and some of the actions we carry out around disability, we are fighting for a slice of the An Garda Síochána website to make sure that our service is front and centre and that we can be seen. This work is ongoing. There is also work being done in the area of mobility. The Deputy may be aware that Garda members across the country now have devices for work that essentially are mobile phones. These devices are quite heavily loaded with apps and data that can help us identify some roads policing issues. We are working on that in the context of trying to map and create a digital older persons' register in order that our personnel have it on their phones. We are also trying to make it to use in order that we can engage with older people without having to go to written documents. This will be more swift and more online. There is certainly work ongoing there.
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