Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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It certainly is. There is a lot of campaigning going on around the area of access. I particularly note the great work of the disability campaigning group, Access for All. It would probably not be surprised at this, but it would be angry. I have been meeting that group for quite a few years. In a way, this is for the Department of Transport, Dublin Bus and Iarnród Éireann. This is an example of a body telling you it is working on improving accessibility while not managing to gather information on it. It has accepted that these are reasonable metrics but does not gather the information. Access for All gathers information as to the number of DART stations every week where people in wheelchairs cannot get on a train because the lifts are not working. The people gathering that information are volunteers and campaigners. There is a pretty big gap there that is worth highlighting. That is not the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform's fault.