Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----to children with multiple conditions. I raised the case of the 11 and a half year old child last week. That child has asthma, is non-verbal and legally blind and has a profound mental disability and a very rare syndrome. The card was taken from that child.

The Minister of State, Deputy White, confirmed in a written reply to a parliamentary question that 10,000 discretionary medical cards were taken out of the system last year. This has never happened before.

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