Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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105. To ask the Minister for Finance if a primary medical certificate will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38787/15]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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The Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers (Tax Concessions) Scheme provides relief from VAT and Vehicle Registration Tax (up to a certain limit) on the purchase of an adapted car for transport of a person with specific severe and permanent physical disabilities, an exemption from motor tax, and a fuel grant (up to a certain limit).

In order to participate in the scheme, an individual must apply to the Senior Medical Officer in their local Health Service Executive office for a Primary Medical Certificate. If a Primary Medical Certificate is refused, an individual may appeal this refusal to the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal.

It would not be appropriate for me to intervene in the clinical determinations of a Senior Medical Officer of the Health Service Executive or of the Medical Board of Appeal.