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Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: How much is that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: How much?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: I have had all that. What is the cost?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: It costs €20 million to review these?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: Is that per annum?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: Has the amount varied during the past five or six years? Has it increased?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: And a couple of hundred staff are employed to work on it full time.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: So those 328 people work on medical cards on a full-time basis.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: Okay, and a couple of hundred staff are employed to operate it. I did not realise there was an obligation on people to surrender their medical cards if their circumstances change.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: Is it an offence not to surrender one's card if one's circumstances change?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: How many people voluntarily surrender their medical cards under the provisions of the 1970 Act?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: What action does the PCRS take in respect of people who have gone over the limit and who have not surrendered their medical cards?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: What is the position if a person has not voluntarily surrendered his or her card despite the fact that he or she exceeded the income threshold? Is the person committing an offence?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: Has anyone been prosecuted under that legislation?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: Does the PCRS not report people who have exceeded the limit and who have not voluntarily surrendered their cards? What action does it take?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: Does Mr. Burke see where I am coming from?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: The PCRS identified a large number of people who went over the income limit over a period. It did so as a result of the reviews it carried out. The PCRS identified the individuals to whom I refer and informed them that they were no longer entitled to medical cards. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: The people in question have been committing an offence.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: I know.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013)

Shane Ross: But nothing happens after that. So the law is actually ignored.