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. Patrick Burke:

To put it in context, we did a forensic reconciliation. On 1 March 2011, there were 97,121 eligibilities registered on the medical card register as being granted under discretion. To explain, the director general indicated before that there is only one medical card. On occasion, if a family faced hardship or an emergency we can issue-----