Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 434: To ask the Minister for Transport the procedure for the issue of disabled person's parking cards and the issuing bodies. [32387/05]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The Road Traffic (Traffic and Parking) Regulations 1997 empower local authorities, the Irish Wheelchair Association and the Disabled Drivers' Association to grant disabled person's parking permits. Permits are issued where the issuing body is satisfied that the applicant is suffering from a disability that prevents him or her from walking or causes undue hardship to the person in walking. The qualifying criterion therefore centres on the issue of mobility impairment and no specific medical condition is stipulated in the regulations. Disabled persons permits are valid for two years from the date of issue.