Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am aware of that, but for all that, we meet people with a disability, specifically people who use a wheelchair, who tell us their experience is not of an accessible city, town or services. I hope in the course of the next general election they will spell out specifically the inaccessible nature of many facilities. While it is not under the Minister's remit, I could provide the example of one of the big complaints in the city of Dublin, namely, the issue of access to taxis. This falls within the remit of transport, but is outside the remit of the Minister because taxis are privately run.

In the review of matters as we come to the end of the Minister's time in government and as we prepare for an election and, one hopes, a new government, this issue needs to be central. We need to take actions that impress upon public bodies, buyers and providers of services that the law and regulations must be enforced ambitiously and generously in a spirit of citizenship.

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