Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Question 362: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a decision not to grant a disabled person parking card to a person (details supplied) in County Carlow will be reversed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40451/11]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Disabled Persons Parking Permits are issued by two organisations, the Irish Wheelchair Association (IWA) and the Disabled Drivers Association of Ireland (DDAI). The criteria under which these organisations process applications for permits are set out broadly in legislation and in more detail through Terms and Conditions for the Disabled Parking Scheme agreed between these organisations and my Department. The processing of individual applications within these criteria is a matter for the IWA and the DDAI. My Department has no role in the processing of such applications. The IWA and the DDAI are not State Agencies, and as such do not come under the governance of my Department.

However, as part of the Terms and Conditions of the Scheme, both organisations have an appeals process in place for people whose applications for a Permit have been refused. In the case to which the Deputy refers, I would advise the applicant to avail of the appeals process provided by the IWA.