Disability Services
Seanad Éireann — 2021-09-29
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Erin McGreehan (FF), Nominated by the Taoiseach

As the Minister of State mentioned, the primary medical certificate is not perfect. I look forward to the review because even the descriptions he read out are incredibly crass. There are some aspects that we have to look at. He also mentioned that there is a significant tax expenditure on this. It is money very well spent, however, and it will do no harm for the State to spend more. We refuse to publish the Indecon report on the cost of disabilities in this country. There is a huge cost involved and we should do anything we can to incentivise people with disabilities and alleviate the cost on them. One way of doing that would be to increase those bands. It is very good to hear that there is no differentiation between electric and other vehicles in the scheme. I hope that is clear to everyone. I am glad we had have obtained clarity today because electric vehicles are very expensive. I will take this up again at a later date. I thank the Minister of State for coming here this morning.

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Sitting date: 2021-09-29