Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

It is just not good enough and in order to highlight this, Bernard Mulvany, who the Minister mentioned, and Sean O’Kelly and others, have had to organise multiple protests about this. It is not acceptable and we need it sorted urgently.

The four hours' notice to access trains in Dublin and the 24 hours needed in the country is not equality. Some private bus companies which do not get state aid do not have to be accessible. There is a lack of accessible taxis. One taxi driver told me that there is a new purpose-built, all electric taxi in London that is fully accessible. If we redirected some of the grants for accessible taxis to purchase those and dropped the vehicle registration tax, VRT, we could have lots of accessible taxis in Dublin in short order. A lot more needs to be done. There needs to be a real focus on this. The situations that Sean and others find themselves in are absolutely unacceptable. Equality means equality.

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