Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 September 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission
2:00 am
John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
I made reference to legislation. The Disability Act 2005 is clear in the sense that public bodies are required to ensure that public buildings are accessible for people with disabilities and disability-proofing, as I described it. It continues in terms of time compliance, which was a ten-year period by which all public buildings were to be compliant in that. It is welcome that disability-proofing or audits are being carried out now. Why only now? That legislation goes back to 2005. When was the last time an accessibility audit was carried out within the precincts?
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