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
10:50 am
Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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When the discretionary medical cards were granted, it was invariably for serious medical conditions from the start. If people were granted a discretionary medical card, up to ten years ago in some cases, and the medical condition of their child, whether the child is disabled or has Down's syndrome, has progressively worsened, how can Mr. O'Brien explain to them that the criteria for assessment have not changed?