Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

The number of licensed wheelchair accessible taxis increased from 840 in 2000 to 1,504 in December 2007. A further 216 applications for wheelchair accessible taxis were received by the commission up to the end of September this year. Under Transport 21, the Department has a provision of €14 million in 2008 for funding accessibility improvements. Some of the money for the scheme would come from that. I cannot recall what the total figure for this was, but it is larger than that amount. I do not have the figure here, so I will have to revert to the Deputy.

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