Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 October 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development

Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion

7:00 pm

Mr. Kevin Doyle:

Senator Dolan raised a number of issues regarding disability access, including Article 9 of the UN convention. We have the implementation plan from our accessibility consultative committee and this contains all the actions we are required to take in respect of public transport arising from the national disability inclusion strategy, comprehensive employment strategy and so on. It has been published on our website and there are a lot of actions in there. There have been successes recently but a lot of retrofitting is to be done relating to disability access.

The Senator also mentioned an issue regarding engagement with the NTA in the context of matters such as delivery of buses and so on.