Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)

I welcome amendment No. 88. The Minister has come a long way in addressing the issues raised on Committee Stage.

We sometimes feel that we do not get important information on issues we need to discuss or are discussing. Issues seem to arise at 6 p.m. on a Friday. We have been through that before, as the Acting Chairman will remember, with other issues in the maritime area. We tend to hear at 6 p.m. on a Friday of some major change or that major documents have been received. The Oireachtas often seems to be the last body to get a look at that. In some of the controversies we have discussed at the Joint Committee on Transport there was a strong feeling among members that important documentation could have been brought to our attention at an earlier time when the Minister had reports in the area of aviation and other areas that would have been the entitlement of the Joint Committee on Transport. I welcome that the Minister has moved in that regard in this area of disability and accessibility. However, we need to address the wider problem.

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