Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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131. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 49 of 22 February 2022, if a new Disabled Driver Medical Board of Appeal has been appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22430/22]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The Department of Health and the Public Appointments Service, with input from Department of Finance officials, issued a call for expressions of interest from medical practitioners to participate in the Board. The call closed on April 29th 2022, with the original deadline being extended as no expressions of interest had been received.

I am informed by Department of Health officials that a number of applications have been received. The assessment of the applications will be undertaken shortly. Depending on the number of successful applications, recommendations will be submitted to the Minister for Health for nomination of any recommended candidates. I will consider nominees as recommended by the Minister for Health, and appoint any suitable nominee to become a member of the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeals. 

Requests for appeal hearings can be sent to the DDMBA secretary based in the National Rehabilitation Hospital. New appeal hearing dates will be issued once the new Board is in place.

Assessments for the primary medical certificate, by the HSE, are continuing to take place.