Alex White (Dublin South, Labour)
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Deputy Sandra McLellan referred to the forthcoming extension of free GP care to the over-70s. She asked us to look at net, rather than gross, income, but that will not apply because there will be no charge. Once it is universal for all those over70 years the income limits will be irrelevant. One simple way to deal with the over-70s issue in legislation, although I am not saying it is the way we will deal with it, would be to remove the current income limits for GP cards. Therefore, there would be no income limits and, if we had a universal system, the only test would be the age of the person concerned.