Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 November 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards

12:30 pm

Mr. Tony O'Brien:

It will produce a number but we do not have a target number. The Deputy's question almost implies that we had a specific target. What we are doing is applying the rules that exist. Clearly it is a difficulty, more so for the individuals than it is for us, if a card which a person has come to depend on is removed by reason of his or her loss of eligibility for it.