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

10:40 am

Mr. John Hennessy:

The numbers taken in this case are snapshots at a point in time. There were 63,000 at one point and 52,000 at the next. There is much movement in the system in the period and the numbers change weekly. A number of medical card holders who were on discretionary cards may have moved to other medical cards.