Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Committee on Disability Matters
Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mr. Bernard Gloster:
Through the Department and directly in bilateral opportunities, we take every opportunity to explore the transport. We were hoping during the cutbacks, particularly during austerity, that someone else would pick up the transport bill and it would be less of a bill for us. That is a reality. We have to accept that there are certain things that we do need to provide transport for.
On the matter around the plans, many of them are already happening or have happened. They are not all of my creation. They are documented. The organisation has signed up to them and will sign up to them in the next round of the service plan and corporate plan. The Department of disability back nearly almost everything that we want to do. There is very little it would not. It is certainly not about me. It will well live beyond me. The members can see with the people on my left and right that there is great possibility for leadership of the future.