Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 November 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards

11:20 am

Mr. John Hennessy:

Hopefully, I can try to explain and clarify the position on that. If it is okay, I will not discuss the particular family, even though we are in discussions with the family and with a number of others who are in similar circumstances. We are happy to do that and, thankfully, the number is quite small but they are there and there is no point in denying that. Essentially, the question is about what has changed and how people qualified-----