Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 24 October 2006
512 Mr. Dennehy asked the Minister for Transport if he has satisfied himself that proper regulation exists to ensure that blue badge parking permits for disabled people are only provided to appropriate people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34587/06]
View answerThe Road Traffic (Traffic and Parking) Regulations, 1997 empower local authorities, the Irish Wheelchair Association and the Disabled Drivers Association, to grant a disabled person's parking permit to a person who is suffering from a disability that is of a nature that prevents him or her from walking or causes undue hardship to the person in walking.
Only vehicles displaying such a permit can use the designated parking bays that are signed through the use of a wheelchair user symbol.
Eligibility for a parking permit is a matter to be determined on a case by case basis by the relevant issuing bodies.
