Transport to be more accessible for people with physical disabilities

Iarnród Éireann and two government ministers are working together to improve access to public transport for people who have physical disabilities.

Transport to be more accessible for people with physical disabilities

People with disabilities have been left abandoned at stations, either because there was no ramp or staff member to assist them in boarding trains.

“The issue that is coming up regularly from people’s with physical disabilities and acquired brain injuries, that this system of not enough ramps at DART stations and train stations, also that you have to ring up the night before and see if there is a staff member on, that, to me, has to change,” said Finian McGrath, Minister of State for Disabilities.

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