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

1:30 pm

Mr. Patrick Burke:

To clarify absolutely and as was discussed earlier, since we centralised, we have had an electronic link with the death events publication service. We are notified immediately of all deaths and eligibility ceases. If the notification is delayed and we have overpaid the GP, for argument's sake in the event that an individual passes away in April but the death events publication service does not tell us until September, we immediately recoup any gap in that regard. It is done automatically and there are no overpayments. That is one point.

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