Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

One of the issues that comes up with regard to medical cards is where someone has a medical condition and is over the threshold but, the only unit providing the kind of care that person requires is with the HSE and he or she cannot get access to it without a medical card. Has this come up quite a bit with regard to particular types of illnesses, where the person needs medical care, but that person can only get it in a hospital setting he or she would not get access to unless he or she had a medical card? I have come across quite a number of those cases.