Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

It is. The Deputy has come in here and argued that there are fewer medical cards and that the numbers are being reduced because the policy is being changed. That is simply not true. Let us deal in facts. First, more medical cards are being issued now than at any other time. Since the beginning of this year, an additional 20,000 medical cards have been issued on a discretionary basis. That is the fact of the matter.

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