Michael Lowry (Tipperary North, Independent)
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Question 528: To ask the Minister for Health with respect to the proposal to create one central office for the processing of medical cards as of 1 July 2011, if he will confirm the number of staff to be employed in the central office; his views on whether this number will be sufficient to process all cases in the promised 15 days in view of the current backlog; the position regarding the 45 persons in the Health Service Executive West who were successful in overturning their compulsory redeployment to the central office in Dublin; if he will clarify the position regarding those currently processing medical cards and employed in regional offices in the Health Service Executive Western Area; the current backlog in months for the processing of such cases in Limerick and Clonmel; if he has received a commitment that the Primary Care Reimbursement Service in the central office will take over the work of offices with a severe backlog; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17548/11]

Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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I have asked the Health Service Executive for a report on the issue raised by the Deputy. I will revert to the Deputy on the matter as soon as possible.