Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 7 February 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed)
9:30 am
Mr. Padraic Moran:
I can give the committee one example from my own engagement with the system. I have asthma and require a brown and a blue inhaler. Since I am now in the long-term illness book, I do not have a medical card and because asthma is not considered a cerebral palsy-related condition, my inhalers cannot be covered by the book. The book says "No". This does not necessarily mean I do not have asthma. That is just to the give the committee an example of a system that, because the book says this, it cannot bend to incorporate something.
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