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
Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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We are not going to have a meeting of minds on this and I think I have made my position clear. I refer to the language of probity and efficiency and centralising things for reasons that are entirely reasonable. When the consequence of that is thousands of casualties - I consider them to be casualties of that - we have to look at it again. Let me repeat that nothing has changed legislatively in terms of people's medical circumstances, but what has changed is policy. That is down to the Minister.