Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I support Deputy Creed on this point. The criteria for a primary medical certificate is so strict and the bar is set very high. I had a case in my area, a person the Minister knows well who lost his entire arm in a boating accident who does not qualify. It is very difficult to explain to a person in that situation that he or she does not have a sufficient disability to qualify for a primary medical certificate. From a reading of the rules that person would not qualify. The Minister needs to look at the issue.