Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

While it is recognised that the director general of the HSE may act on his or her own initiative to take account of an ad misericordiamappeal on a case-by-case basis to reinstate a discretionary card where, due to exceptional individual medical circumstances, a person did not respond or reply either to the review or appeals system that was going on, the estimate is that the number of cards to be reinstated is 13,300 cards at a cost of €13 million.

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