Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I never questioned the Minister of State's commitment but his delivery of this proposal is at stake here.

The difficulty is that while we are discussing these grand plans, letters are being circulated to people throughout the country, some in their 70s and 80s, by the primary care reimbursement service requesting a review of their medical card entitlement. I have raised this issue time and again, including with the Taoiseach. A constituent came to me in recent days whose wife has undergone a double mastectomy but who, because the household income is just above the threshold, will not retain her medical card.

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