Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I support the Minister. He acknowledges there is a difficulty with wheelchair-accessible taxis and he is right to focus on the issue of specifications, as there seems to be over-regulation in this area.

In many rural areas it is next to impossible to get a wheelchair-accessible taxi. Due to the closure of our small hospitals, a fact that the Minister knows well-----

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