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

Mr. John Hennessy:

I will try to get the precise number. Let me give an example to illustrate what I am saying. People, families or households, receive the benefit of a medical card at the early stages of cancer treatment, for example. In newly diagnosed cancer cases it can be a very expensive and traumatic time for a household, but that changes.