ties. Inclusion in the school system is often talked about, but there is a great deal of work ahead of us so that it will benefit everyone. Everyday life is not always easy for disabled persons. For example, the Theseus Temple in the Vienna Volksgarten was expensively renovated, but it has no disabled access. Or the grab handles in the washroom of a police station were forgotten when it was renovated. Of course I address these cases and demand improvements. Legislators took an important step forward with the regulation on ID cards for persons with impaired mobility in the Austrian Road Traffic Act. A legislative amendment made this ID card accessible for more persons with disabilities. The Federal Social Welfare Offices will ensure a uniform enforcement of this legislation in the future. For me, in addition to ex-post control of public administration, the AOB’s monitoring of legislation plays a central role. Unfortunately, the AOB’s legislative recommendations are acted upon far too rarely. Legislative recommendations are very important A tenacious perseverance is often required to achieve improvements to legislation. The AOB’s reports clearly show that recommendations must be repeated year after year. That is why it makes me particularly happy that significant improvements in citizenship law appear to be on the horizon. In the Annual Report 2011, the AOB addressed this subject in great detail and summarised all of the suggested recommendations, some of which had been made repeatedly for years. Then things began to stir. The political arena took up some of the items and signalised its willingness to discuss them. Finally both politicians and the Ministry of the Interior held out the prospect of a major amendment of the Citizenship Act that is supposed to contain almost all of the recommendations for improvement made by the AOB. Thus, the persistence of the AOB should soon be rewarded to the benefit of many citizenship applicants. 27