Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Some 20,000 new discretionary medical cards have been granted this year alone. Under the system I have changed, with the communications element of the HSE, where something of this nature is required, the HSE deals with each individual case. The Deputy can wave all the paper he likes, but there has been no change in the policy on the issuing of medical cards. Nobody is entitled to a medical card automatically, but everybody is entitled to have his or her case properly and compassionately assessed. Either the case mentioned by the Deputy is not covered-----

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