Alex White (Dublin South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

We are quite happy to discuss discretionary medical cards. The Deputy is wrong. There is no systematic policy, or anything like it, to remove discretionary medical cards. The Deputy is well aware of what I meant when I stated there is no such thing as a discretionary medical card. A medical card is a medical card. Regardless of whether one applies through the means-tested system or the discretionary system, what one will obtain is a medical card. The cards relating to both systems are the same. The Deputy knows what I am talking about and it is he who is playing fast and loose with the facts.

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