Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein)
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563. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the problems persons (details supplied) living along the Border and whose general practitioner is based in Northern Ireland have in receiving medical clearance to renew their driver's licence, due to the doctor having being accredited with the British Medical Council only; his plans to rectify this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15496/16]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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Section 41 of the Road Traffic (Licensing of Drivers) Regulations 2006 (as amended) sets out when an application by a person for a driving licence shall be accompanied by a report completed by a registered medical practitioner.  A registered medical practitioner is defined as a person whose name is entered in the General Register of Medical Practitioners established under section 43(1) of the Medical Practitioners Act 2007.

It is not my intention to amend this requirement at this time.