Written answers

Wednesday, 18 December 2013

Department of Finance

Disabled Drivers Grant Application Numbers

Photo of Patrick O'DonovanPatrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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57. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the number of persons who were granted a primary certificate from 2010 to date that were receiving dialysis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54511/13]

Photo of Michael NoonanMichael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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Primary Medical Certificates, which certify that a person is a severely and permanently disabled person for the purposes of the Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers Regulations 1994, are issued by the Health Services Executive (HSE). Accordingly, the information sought by the Deputy is a matter for the HSE in the first instance. In order to be granted the Primary Medical Certificate, an applicant must satisfy one of the following conditions: a) be wholly or almost wholly without the use of both legs; b) be wholly without the use of one leg and almost wholly without the use of the other leg such that the applicant is severely restricted as to movement of the lower limbs; c) be without both hands or without both arms; d) be without one or both legs; e) be wholly or almost wholly without the use of both hands or arms and wholly or almost wholly without the use of one leg; f) have the medical condition of dwarfism and have serious difficulties of movement of the lower limbs.

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