Ms Ger McTavish:

-----Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council does a really good programme called the bike hub. It has accessible bikes but also has engaged volunteers to be the drivers. For people who are retired or who would like to volunteer, there is a whole booking system. We work with the organisation Age and Opportunity, the local sports partnership and then with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown. It gives an option for the volunteer in that a bike can be booked in and out on the booking system but also that an older person can actually be the driver and volunteer as well. All those organisations from the men's sheds to all the different organisations could be pulled in to create a hub.

On the networking and the interdepartmental interdependency, we also need to communicate a bit more across the sectors.

A huge one that many of the individuals communicate to me is transport. Getting from their own homes to the activities is the first barrier. If they can do it in their own homes - online and all of that - it is great but having that social interaction and getting the person to the activity, to the school or to the club is a key barrier we need to look at as well.