Over 60 polling stations around the country are not accessible to wheelchair users, according to a new survey.

Disability activist Ciarán Delaney has found that 18 stations in Limerick, 16 in Donegal and 10 in Kerr and a number in Dublin are inaccessible.

On Newstalk Breakfast his morning, he described the situation as “apartheid in another form” and said there is no excuse for the lack of access in 2020.

He said Ireland has already ratified a UN Convention that includes a legal obligation to provide wheelchair access at the stations.

“This is something that has been obvious for some time,” he said.

“It should not be beyond the ability of returning officers to make polling stations accessible.”

He said wheelchair-users who arrive at a polling station that does not have adequate facilities are forced to travel to a different station to cast their vote.

He called for prefabs with wheelchair ramps, used in recent elections in the UK, to be installed at all stations that do not have access.