Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We should not have situations like those involving the children and their mothers who I saw on the television. We have 1.9 million medical cards issued. I put it to Deputy Martin that after speaking to these people directly there was a systems failure that did not take into account or did not know about the information involved, whether it be a failure on some of the people in sending in information. I was given an indication this week that some do not reply.

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