Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 May 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme: Former Members of the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal

Dr. Nicky Scaramuzzi:

You would be brave to take that on. In addition, what we do is very specialised. I am referring to the type of assessment and the way we explain it. We would have to train the candidates. They could not just land into the job and do a good job. We have learned over time to manage this situation so we can mind people in the assessment process and try to let them go home not feeling utterly devastated. That has to be shown. It would not work and would be wrong to appoint new people to a role from which four doctors have resigned on ethical grounds. There is something not right about that.

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