Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 March 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

Climate Crisis and Disability: Discussion

Mr. Peter Kearns:

I will give a quick example of something that is working. We support local DPOs. I support Sligo Disabled Persons' Organisation, which is facilitated through a public participation network, PPN. Through that, we have received money to make a videos for social media looking at the environmental barriers in terms of sustainable climate change. We made a video that looked at the new recycling centres. They are great except they are all up on paths and blocked by kerbs and they are quite high up. They are all brand new. The PPN has given us money to make the videos, which we can use and show to the local authorities. That is an example of where a dialogue approach is actually working.