John Dennehy (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 512: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has satisfied himself that proper regulation exists to ensure that blue badge parking permits for disabled people are only provided to appropriate people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34587/06]

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 a disabled person's parking permit to a person who is suffering from a disability that is of a nature that prevents him or her from walking or causes undue hardship to the person in walking.

Only vehicles displaying such a permit can use the designated parking bays that are signed through the use of a wheelchair user symbol.

Eligibility for a parking permit is a matter to be determined on a case by case basis by the relevant issuing bodies.