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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) Mary Lou McDonald: I do not wish to be confrontational at this hour of the day, but that is so patently not true. The law has not changed. The law has been in existence since 1970. Katie Connolly is five years old, which puts her date of birth in 2008. She was granted the medical card with due regard and in accordance with that legislation. The judgment was that, given the seriousness, complexity and...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: I appreciate the process was centralised. God knows we had many a session here around the backlogs and delays but, fortunately, that appears to be resolved. I also appreciate that it makes rational sense to have standardised procedures and to have a standard and a transparent approach. I am not gainsaying any of that. What I am simply saying is that people - 6,324 - who are ill and in...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: I would be interested to see that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: How does Mr. Hennessy know that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Okay but just a word to the wise. Just because the HSE has not been contacted does not necessarily mean the experience is not out there.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: We, as politicians, know that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: What does that mean?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: So it was wrong that Katie had a medical card.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Hennessy has commented on it that it was wrong Katie Connolly had a medical card.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: All right. Let me rephrase it. It was wrong that these 6,324 people, among whom we can count Katie, had medical cards.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: I would say to Mr. Hennessy very directly that the support they want is their medical card back. That is what they want. I am not for a minute playing down the other fine supports and services which are there. These people want their medical cards back. I certainly do not want to put words in Mr. Hennessy's mouth but he began to say that we cannot compound something that was wrong by...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: -----that causes people and their families because they all live in the same world we do. We are reeling off numbers here, naturally because the HSE is a big organisation which deals with a big budget and large numbers. These are not numbers; this is real stuff that is happening to people.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: I am aware of that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: We are not going to have a meeting of minds on this and I think I have made my position clear. I refer to the language of probity and efficiency and centralising things for reasons that are entirely reasonable. When the consequence of that is thousands of casualties - I consider them to be casualties of that - we have to look at it again. Let me repeat that nothing has changed...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: I want to ask a short question which relates to the service plan. It has been indicated that it will be published on 25 November.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: It will be completed.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: On 25 November.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: In respect of the four CEOs of the hospitals who wrote to Mr. O'Brien recently, there was an indication that there would be consultation or communication between those persons and the HSE. Can I take it that is under way?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Is there an ongoing process of dialogue in respect of the funding of those hospitals?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: On the specific issue in the letter to RTE, is there dialogue and discussion on that matter?