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

12:50 pm

Mr. Tony O'Brien:

If we had clear evidence that someone had set out, deliberately and with criminal intent, to falsely obtain a medical card by misrepresenting his or her means in the first instance and then retained it, we would have an obligation to do something about it. We are coming from a context in which we have a cultural issue to deal with.