Mr. Paul Flanagan:

I can speak to that point. In broad terms firstly, there are two cohorts of persons who qualify for medical card eligibility: those persons who are over the age of 70 and those who are under 70. We spoke at length in the committee prelegislative scrutiny session we had in November around medical cards and medical card eligibility generally. The point we made at that time was the thresholds for persons over 70 increased last in November 2020 and the general thresholds for persons under 70 - to which the Deputy refers - are in the region of €184 for a single person as the financial viability criteria.