Alex White (Dublin South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

This is how we should do business in future. We should make sure we have a proper rules-based system and do as the Minister and I have sought to do, which is take steps to ensure services are in place to support people who have lost out on a medical card on which they relied for a number of years, and make improvements in the services where they are needed, particularly with regard to access to and information on the services, in order that there is proper interaction between the primary care reimbursement service, PCRS, and services on the ground. I accept we have not done enough to achieve this and there are gaps in services which need to be filled. This is where we are concentrating our efforts, to ensure people get the services they need.

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