Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance
Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed)
4:15 pm
Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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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.