Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 June 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 21 - Budget Management in Health Service Executive
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards

11:30 am

Mr. John Hennessy:

The overall review programme for 2014 involved just short of 900,000 medical cards. Discretionary medical cards account for a much smaller subset of that number, but they will be included in the overall review programme.