Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 February 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers Scheme: Discussion
Mr. Ger Deering:
Taking the Senator's last point regarding the primary medical certificate first, that whole process is based on a flawed system anyway. What must happen is that there must be a new way of assessing people's mobility and a new certification method must be introduced. On the backlog, it has been created, as the Senator knows, by the assessment board resigning, and, before that, by the hiatus in the context of the court. The problem here is that even if that process were to get up and running again, most of the people applying would not qualify in any event for the scheme. I am not sure that trying to fix that-----
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