Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

-----as well as the loss of security which the medical card gives. There also will be medical card losses for people who are under 70 and the Government is targeting €113 million to be withdrawn from those people. That equates to approximately 100,000 medical cards being withdrawn next year. We all know how squeezed people are already because of the tight income limits.

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