Accessible polling stations
Seán Crowe raises the lack of wheelchair access at a Dublin polling station and asks whether legislation needs revision; the Chair recommends submitting the matter as a Topical Issue.
The Ceann Comhairle might guide me on my question. One of the schools used for the elections in Dublin South-West was Holy Rosary primary school, but anyone with a physical impairment could not approach the polling station. There is legislation on this matter, but it does not seem to have been implemented. Anyone with a physical impairment-----
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I could, but a by-election is coming down the tracks. Must the Electoral Commission Bill be tweaked? It was degrading to see people in wheelchairs-----
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-----not being able to access the polling station.
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If the Deputy submitted this as a Topical Issue, I would certainly consider it favourably. That is the best way of dealing with it.
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It related to the Electoral Commission Bill.