Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Committee on Transport
National Transport Authority: Engagement
2:00 am
Mr. Hugh Creegan:
At the moment, there is no intention to change it. A few years ago, we changed the requirements for wheelchair vehicles to permit smaller size vehicles. We put in place grants. If people approach it appropriately, the cost of the wheelchair-accessible vehicle with the grant should be no more than the cost of a normal saloon car. We think we have equalised it.
We will engage with transport co-ordination units. I think we put contracts in place with them last year. These will go for a few years. We have a positive relationship with them, which we want to continue. There may be a route to change that in the future, but I do not think of it as a singular body. It is something dispersed.
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