Séamus Healy (Tipperary South, Workers and Unemployed Action Group) | Oireachtas source

These are people who have current medical cards. Is the HSE legally entitled to withdraw those cards? These people are marginally over the limit and have medical conditions. They are aged between 65 and 69 and will get the medical card anyway when they reach 70. If it is taken from them now it will be reissued to them after they reach 70.