Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will paraphrase what the Minister of State said a few moments ago, which is that one must ensure the services people need are what they get. Yet he has placed people not on a pathway to those needs and services but in a maze in which they are unable to find how to get to the end point. This is absolutely unacceptable. Moreover, in the Minister of State's earlier response to me - when I thought I had another opportunity to reply regarding my priority question on this very issue - he spoke about the context of elections. The Jack & Jill Children's Foundation is not standing in the local and European elections but has described the current medical card system in Ireland as being broken and lacking in humanity. It has described it as being unjust and inconsistent and as a hellish lottery. Has the Minister of State read the correspondence from the specialist nurses in the Jack & Jill Children's Foundation? Has he looked at the case put by the Aoibheann's Pink Tie organisation on behalf of children with cancer?

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