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

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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Different individuals have different needs. Indeed, needs evolve as people evolve, as disabilities worsen or as medication improves. Without underplaying the complexity of this matter, how to deal with it is obvious enough. It is a question of taking a person-centred approach as opposed to trying to get everybody to fit into a box, and anyone who does not fit into the box is forgotten about. I presume the Department is looking at this from a cost perspective.