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Please note, the below PQs are filed chronologically, with the most recent at the bottom of the list

TRANSPORT

ALLOWANCES

Mobility Allowance

• Mobility Allowance
• Rates of Mobility Allowance
• Change in repayment arrangements for excise duty on fuel used in a vehicle for the transport of a disabled person
• Rates of Mobility Allowance

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GOVERNMENT POLICY

General

• Tax relief for hiring a car suitable for people with a disability abroad
• Transport spend on National Disability Strategy
• National Disability Strategy Allocation and Transport
• Funds available under Investment Programme of National Disability Strategy - Transport
• Adjournment Debate: School Transport
• Illegal parking in disabled parking spaces
• Penalties for parking in designated disabled parking bays
• Penalties for parking in designated disabled parking bays
• New emission based car tax system and disabled drivers
• Enhancing rural transport services
• Disabled person’s parking permits
• Review of the Disabled Parking Scheme
• Number of disabled parking discs allocated in the past five years
• Funding allocated to Rural Transport Programme in 2010
• Accessible Community Transport Services
• New Guidelines for Accessible Maritime Passenger Transport
• Supplementary welfare allowance travel supplement scheme
• Progress made in acting on recommendations of ‘Getting There — Transport and Access to Social Services’
• New procedure requiring cars that have been adapted for disabled drivers to wait two weeks to be assessed by national car test

Public Transport

• Percentage of public transport buses in Cork
• Wheelchair Accessible Bus Éireann Buses
• Wheelchair Accessible Train Carriages
• Public transport and taxis for people with a disability
• EU regulation on rights of bus passengers
• Wheelchair accessible buses in Meath
• Dishing footpaths and ramps along Luas line
• Accessibility requirements for buses
• Access to train services for people with a disability on Limerick to Dublin route
• Accessibility of trains

Taxis

• Accessible Transport
• Wheelchair Accessible Taxis
• Subsidy scheme for wheelchair accessible taxis
• Recommendations on Interdepartmental Group on Disabled Drivrs Disabled Passengers Tax Concessions
• Accessible taxis used by Department of An Taoiseach
• Accessible taxis used by Department of Enterprise
• Accessible taxis used by Department of Finance
• Accessible taxis used by Department of Health
• Accessible taxis used by Department of Transport
• Accessible taxis used by Department of Justice
• Accessible taxis used by Department of Foreign Affairs
• Accessible taxis used by Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
• Accessible taxis used by Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
• Accessible taxis used by Department of Social and Family Affairs
• Accessible taxis used by Department of Defence
• Accessible taxis used by Department of Environment
• Accessible taxis used by Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
• Accessible taxis used by Department of Agriculture
• Accessible taxis used by Department of Education
• Subsidies to assist accessible taxi licence holders in upgrading their vehicles
• Improve taxi services for people with disabilities
• Subsidies for accessible taxis
• Government’s target of 10% of wheelchair accessible taxis
• Wheelchair accessible taxis
• Accessible taxis scheme

Disabled Drivers Scheme

• Adjournment Debate: Disabled Drivers Scheme
• Disabled Drivers and Passengers Tax Relief
• Expansion of Disabled Drivers Scheme
• Proposals to review the disabled drivers and disabled passengers tax concession scheme
• Tax concessions for disabled drivers and disabled passengers
• Recommendations of the interdepartmental review group made in 2002 on tax concessions for disabled drivers and disabled passengers
• Completion date for review of the disabled drivers and disabled passengers tax concessions scheme
• Status of Report of interdepartmental group dealing with the Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers
• Cost of Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal
• Agencies operating under Dept. of Finance
• Operations, budget and waiting time for Disabled Drivers Appeals Board
• Appeal under the Disabled Drivers Scheme
• Number of applications for Disabled Persons Grant
• Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers (Tax Concessions) Scheme
• Cost of the disabled drivers appeals board scheme and no. of appeals
• Reason only one fuel claim per year now available under the Disabled Drivers Scheme
• Recommendations of inter-departmental group dealing on disabled passengers tax regulations
• Disabled Parking Scheme
• Vehicle registration tax refund for disabled drivers scheme
• Delays in registering vehicles under the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme
• Increase fines for parking in disabled parking spaces
• Cost of Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal
• If disabled driver qualification criteria will be widened to include passengers with Down Syndrome
• Widen disabled drivers scheme to include people with Down syndrome
• Charge applied to disabled persons in County Donegal for travel to their training day or day centres under the rural transport initiative
• Refund of VAT or vehicle registration tax in respect of vehicles used for the transport of persons with disabilities
• Expand Disabled Drivers Scheme to people with autism

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