Facilities for Disabled People

Part of 3. Questions to the Assembly Commission – in the Senedd at 3:09 pm on 28 February 2018.

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Photo of Mark Isherwood Mark Isherwood Conservative 3:09, 28 February 2018

Thank you. Let me start by praising Assembly Commission staff as somebody with hearing loss, that, whenever a problem arises with technology, they are wonderful in seeking to help and remove those barriers. But in the early Assembly—. I've been here long enough to have sat in the old Chamber, and, in those days, Members with impairments, including those like myself with hearing loss, would be asked to road test the equipment or adaptations being considered before the Commission of the day—or the parliamentary service, as it was then called—would invest in those new provisions. That has not been the case in my experience since we moved to this Chamber early in 2006, before the formal opening then on St David's Day. Will the Commission give, therefore, consideration to restoring a system whereby, before investment in new disability adaptations for the Assembly estate is implemented, that Members, and potentially other disability access groups, are invited to road test and advise first?