Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health
Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised)
10:50 am
Ms Laverne McGuinness:
There are currently 59,000 discretionary medical cards, with 19,200 GP visit cards. Somebody who may not qualify for a discretionary medical card may get the discretionary GP visit card. I will have to revert to the Deputy with regard to the trajectory of numbers and deviation from this time last year. I will submit that report to the committee.