Galwegians awaiting decisions or appeals hearings by the Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passenger Tax Concession Appeals Board will suffer further delays.
The delays are a result of resignations by medical appeals board members. The Department of Health and Finance are now working to appoint members to a new appeals board.
According to Independent Galway East TD, Sean Canney [pictured below], this will result in further delays to the processing of appeals.
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“I have constituents waiting up to two years for an appeal to be heard,” he said. “This is totally unfair on people with a disability to have to wait for such a long time.”
Dep Canney said he would raise this issue at the next meeting of the Oireachtas’ Disability Matters Committee. “This is not the way,” he said, “ to treat people with a disability.”
