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

12:00 pm

Mr. Patrick Burke:

In other words, in quite a number of the cases they will look at circumstances where the net income after allowing for any medical expenses and what not are many multiples of the guidelines. In those instances, as they assess it, they can arrive quickly at a decision. It is only where the net income is closer to the demarcation line that there will be that case conference conversation.