Malcolm Noonan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

A number of years ago when I was a member of Kilkenny Borough Council, an initiative was brought forward by a person who was working with people with disabilities to bring in a disabled parking bay monitoring scheme. The monitors who worked, and are still working, on the streets of Kilkenny are themselves wheelchair users. They monitor the disabled bays and report back to traffic wardens where the disabled bays are being abused or being parked in by people without disability badges. That is one scheme that was brought in and it was very successful. Similarly, there is an individual in Kilkenny, Paul Crilly, who is bringing easy-read menus into our restaurants. He is doing fantastic work. Our access officer was at a senior level as an architect so perhaps the responsibility lies at a senior grade in the local authority, such as a planner. There was a good access group. There must be an infrastructure there, first backed up by a development plan-----

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