Ms Alice Griffin:

We do have a wonderful project in Kildare with the county council and County Kildare Access Network, CKAN. The project works with transition year students to introduce them to and educate them on disability and equality and supports, to enable them to conduct access audits within their local schools or community and present them to the local authority. To date, we have worked with more than 70 students in three schools. It has been hugely successful in supporting the creation of non-disabling communities and working with local access groups to ensure the barriers identified in local towns and villages have been considered and either removed or highlighted to the local authority.