Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)

With regard to fairness and equality, I welcome the general practitioner-only medical card. No Member should criticise that positive, imaginative and proactive measure which ensures that those who are just outside eligibility for the full medical card will now get free GP care. I urge the Labour Party to reconsider its opposition to this imaginative approach.

I wish the Bill a speedy passage through the House.

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