Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It was something we discussed last year. The Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, and I discussed it and I am glad it is being reviewed at the moment. We all deal with people in our constituency offices every day of the week who are finding it difficult to secure a medical card and especially when they have an illness. That is one of the challenges. It is important that it would be reviewed. I do not disagree with the Deputy's point at all. I also want to put on the record that we have expanded the amount of people who can have the doctor visit only cards. Almost 50% of people in the State either have a medical card or a GP visit only card. We will look forward to that review and the recommendations from it.