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Parliament
Tuesday April 4, 2006
Shahrizat blasts councils
WOMEN, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil lambasted local authorities for not providing sufficient facilities to the disabled.
Attributing the situation in the country to poor implementation, she said the Government had established policies on the matter.
“I am extremely disappointed with them. It is as if they are sambil lewa (indifferent) over this matter,” she said at the Parliament lobby.
She was asked to comment on reports that a physically disabled woman, Guldip Kaur @ Rina, had received a letter from the Klang Municipal Council threatening court action for failing to pay for parking.
Rina claimed that she could not pay the parking fees because the bay she had used was not a special bay for the disabled and she could not reach the ticket machines.
Datuk Shahrir Abdul Samad (BN – Johor Baru) had asked Housing and Local Government Ministry parliamentary secretary Dr S. Subramaniam about this incident earlier during question time.
Shahrizat said this would not have happened if there were special facilities for the disabled.
“This is not difficult. Local authorities must include these things in their planning,” she said, adding that such facilities were the norm in other countries.
During question time, Shahrir, who pointed out Rina’s case, asked whether the Government was planning to audit every local authority to see if it provided good facilities and whether its officers were friendly towards the disabled.
Dr Subramaniam said the Government carried out a survey on local authorities last year and found that 72% of the buildings under the control of local authorities were disabled-friendly.
“The others are old buildings which are quite difficult to renovate due to space constraints,” he said, adding that the survey was conducted on 50 of 96 local authorities.
He said the old buildings were built before the Guidelines On Building Requirements For Disabled Persons were implemented in 1990.
“Some local authorities also do not have enough money to renovate the buildings,” he noted.
Dr Subramaniam said the ministry was responsible for ensuring that buildings were disabled-people friendly.
He said the Government also required the private sector to submit their building plans for approval.
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