Videos have shown a wheelchair user struggling to get up a temporary ramp at Dún Laoghaire baths, with the council acknowledging the area is steep
COMPLAINTS HAVE BEEN made by wheelchair users about the lack of overall accessibility at the newly-refurbished Dún Laoghaire Baths in Dublin, with the temporary ramps on the lower level condemned as too steep.
In a video shared on Twitter earlier this week, O’Kelly attempted to use the temporarily installed ramps, but found it too difficult to do so independently. Sean is a local so we made a couple of videos yesterday, now tell us this public place is inclusive and accessible, go on tell us.🤯 pic.twitter.com/M8eJyiB9GgO’Kelly, who lives in Dún Laoghaire, said there are signs on the ramps warning users of the incline, which read “steep slope” – something he said is “crazy”.
‘Not accessible for some’ In a statement to The Journal, a spokesperson for Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council acknowledged that the lower area of the refurbished Baths “is not accessible for some”. “Dividing the project into two phases has allowed some of the facilities to be opened to the public much faster than if the entire project had been developed as a single parcel of work, but with the drawback that the site isn’t currently as accessible for all as we would like it to be,” the spokesperson continued.
The spokesperson added that this will be rectified once the second phase of the project has been completed, and that the Council expect “to see contractors onsite working on this phase later in 2023″. In a statement yesterday, People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett said: “It is unbelievably shocking and disappointing that this brand new, ‘state of the art’ public amenity could have been completed and opened formally when it is not accessible to many people.
“The redevelopment of this site took far too long, cost far too much money as a result of those delays, and now we have this incredibly serious issue. Local Social Democrats councillor Dave Quinn told The Journal that the lack of accessibility is “really disappointing”.
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