Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will cut to the chase on the issue. The culling of discretionary medical cards has already been referred to in Priority Questions, Private Members' business and in the House for the past two years plus. Can we have an acceptance from the Government side that there is a major problem? It has been acknowledged in the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party. I wish that the Labour Party would acknowledge it as well and then we might get some traction for change, not necessarily in the policy but in the practice of how discretionary medical cards are assessed and awarded.

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