Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I want to raise the issue of residents in private nursing homes who have full medical cards but who are being made to pay for medicines which are free of charge to their fellow citizens who live ordinarily in the community. These residents are not being provided with basics such as wound management products free of charge. They are forced to pay for physiotherapy and occupational therapy, as well as speech and language therapy. When their family members raise concerns and objections to the charges, they are told quite bluntly that there are other service providers if they do not like the rules.

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