Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion

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

I met a young man with multiple sclerosis whose wife was working so he was totally over the income limit. Initially, he could not get access to particular treatment unless he had a medical card. We got it over the line. He was refused initially. In fairness to the medical card division, it reviewed it and gave him a card, but this is the kind of thing I am talking about, where someone could not get access to the treatment he required because it was only through a HSE facility.

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