Dr. Ray Walley:

There are certainly practices in more affluent areas where people have returned to the workforce and lost their medical cards. While the number involved is substantial, I cannot say whether the average corresponds with the figure cited because the only entity that has control of the relevant data is the primary care reimbursement service of the HSE. The PCRS has shown itself to be an opaque organisation when we seek data from it. While we want to engage-----