Results 21,281-21,300 of 26,152 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: I understand. I wish to ask a simple question in the limited time available and in layman's terms. The general public look in at us from outside and have the general view that all discretionary medical cards have been subject to review.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: The rest of the cohort, a far lower proportion of general medical cards, have been subject to review.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: How many of the 97,121 discretionary medical cards have been subject to review?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: The job of the Committee of Public Accounts is to examine the procedures performed by the organisations that come before us. Would it give better value for money for the taxpayer and, more particularly, people who are seriously ill if more energy was directed, for instance, at the issues under general review? How many medical cards under general review are in the names of people who are...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: Does that represent about 50%?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: That is fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: It is still reasonable for me to ask the following question. How many discretionary medical cards have been reviewed?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: Please provide the information. I ask the HSE to examine the issue again regarding the cohort of persons who are seriously ill. When will its service plan be provided for the Minister for Health?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: Will Mr. O'Brien tell me why the deadline has been put back on at least two occasions?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: The next deferral will be the second.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: Will Mr. O'Brien explain the reason for the deferral?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: Let me speak about what has been published and the measures involved. A total net saving of €666 million was published as part of the budget, with a medical card probity saving of €113 million. I ask Mr. O'Brien to indicate his view of the figure, the average cost per medical card and the number of medical card holders that will be affected by the measure. Please give us a...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: Therefore, 50% were more than 200% above the guideline figures.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Burke is saying there are approximately 6,700 discretionary medical cards for which people did not qualify on means grounds.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Burke is missing the point. Will he give me the precise figure? Is it 6,324?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: My point is that those 6,324 people have a serious medical condition. In the cases that have come across my desk many of them are disabled children or children with Down's syndrome. They would have had medical cards since birth or from the first year of their lives. I am talking about the system; this is not personal. It is an important issue. Let us say a person has Down's syndrome and...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: Invariably, in the cases coming to our clinics in our constituencies the medical conditions have deteriorated. If one has a child with cystic fibrosis, for example, in many cases his or her asthma has got worse and the condition has progressed. I also see it happening with disabled children. I am talking about that cohort whose medical conditions have not improved.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: When the discretionary medical cards were granted, it was invariably for serious medical conditions from the start. If people were granted a discretionary medical card, up to ten years ago in some cases, and the medical condition of their child, whether the child is disabled or has Down's syndrome, has progressively worsened, how can Mr. O'Brien explain to them that the criteria for...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: On that point, how many of the discretionary medical cards - Mr. Buckley has said 97,121 discretionary medical cards have been issued - have been subject to review? How many of the other approximately 1.9 million medical cards have been subject to review?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: I am asking this on an analytical point. How many of the discretionary medical cards were reviewed?