Mr. Niall Brunell:

As Deputy Tully stated, the transport work has been led by work done under the national disability inclusion strategy, NDIS, by the action 104 transport working group. The latter produced a report. The Department of the Taoiseach is chairing a senior officials group which is taking that work forward and which has met a couple of times.

We are also looking at transport as a dedicated pillar in the NDIS, which will be the UNCRPD implement plan. That is looking at a couple of strands, one of which is a dedicated piece of work around the disabled drivers' and passengers' scheme in respect of which there is a recognised need to change the approach. The other is work on looking at assessments for transport supports. We have been engaging as part of that process, which has been managed by the Department of the Taoiseach. We have also worked closely with the Department of the Taoiseach on the transport pillar for the NDIS. We hope to unveil, as part of the publication for that strategy, a pillar's worth of work looking at transport support, from incentivising and doing better in terms of access to public transport to a whole-of-journey approach to people for whom public transport may not be an option or who might need additional supports to get to and from public transport. There is a great deal of work going on there. We would hope that the NDIS pillar would set out what that looks like over the next six years.