Sir, – Finian McGrath (Letters, May 9th) correctly sets out the requirement under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for public bodies to closely and meaningfully consult with disabled persons’ representative organisations.
I’m a representative of Voice of Vision Impairment (VVI), and I believe that any reasonable person would agree that visually impaired people are particularly worthy of close consultation in respect of any transport plan. But there has been no close or meaningful consultation with us on the Dublin City Transport Plan. It’s eight months since the plan’s public consultation began, and five months since it ended. Our organisation still hasn’t received screenreader-accessible documents so that we can read the proposed plan. The submission we sent to Dublin City Council was limited to points based on our general guidelines. – Yours, etc,
Dr ROBERT SINNOTT,
Voice of Vision Impairment,
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