Ms Eileen Daly:

In response to Deputy Brady, we are still waiting for news on the medical card. We have not received a response to date and eagerly await that. Five years is not long enough to retain the medical card based on disability, which is a lifelong issue. As we age, it changes over time. One way to deal with that would be to have a medical card based only on the disability and its particular needs but open to the fact that people change too.