Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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Regarding primary medical certificates, following a court hearing in July, the decision was taken to suspend all further applications. The reason, with which I agree, was that the criteria were so narrow. Deputy Canney and I have constituency colleagues in Galway who advocated very recently about it. It is very limiting. A blind person can never apply for a primary medical certificate. I welcome the decision to suspend and review it. Believe it or not, this comes under the remit of the Minister for Finance. He instructed the Minister for Health to suspend all applications until we saw the outcome. I will liaise with the Minister for Health and make it a priority because it impacts on so many. The scope of it was very narrow.