Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 17: To ask the Minister for Transport the percentage of Bus Átha Cliath and Bus Éireann buses that can accommodate passengers with impaired mobility. [32851/07]

Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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Since 2000 all buses purchased by Dublin Bus are low-floor wheelchair accessible. I understand from Dublin Bus that currently 67% of the fleet (almost 800 buses) is accessible and that the company plans to have all of the fleet accessible by 2012.

Bus Éireann has informed me that approximately 26% (174 buses) of its fleet of buses used for scheduled services is fully accessible to customers with impaired mobility. (This excludes coaches). The company has achieved practically a complete fleet conversion to low floor accessible buses on all city services operating in Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford. In the future all buses purchased by Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann will be fully accessible.