Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Healy-Rae understates himself when he says there are far more experienced people than him in the House. I can assure the Deputy that there has been no change of policy in the Department of Health or the HSE in respect of discretionary medical cards. Given that the Deputy deals with such a volume of inquiries about medical cards, it may well be the case that a number have come through with particular difficulties. I do not know the details of the child who requires a prosthesis, the person who is waiting for a kidney transplant or the cancer patient to whom the Deputy referred. Let me assure him that what he put in here stands. The is no change of policy in respect of discretionary medical cards. Perhaps he could forward the details of the cases he has and it could be demonstrated whether that is so.

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