Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 30 March 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion
Ms Celeste O'Callaghan:
That is okay. We have commenced work on the legislation. That followed on from the publication of the report in November and the decision by the Government to proceed with this approach. We are currently in the preliminary analysis phase. We are doing a couple of strands of analysis to underpin the development of options relating to the legislation. The clinical advisory group report set out some of the challenges that are likely to arise when we are trying to legislate for something like this. In particular, there are challenges around defining what a terminal illness is. That is one area that we are examining in order to do the preliminary analysis. We are at that stage with the legislation.
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