Likewise in health, the Minister and his colleagues have totally reneged on their promises. According to Fianna Fáil, they would implement the national health strategy through a co-ordinated multi-annual programme of service development and would permanently end hospital waiting lists within two years. The Progressive Democrats would review medical card eligibility for people with long-term illnesses to assess whether the needs of all people with long-term illnesses were being met and extend medical card eligibility to over 200,000 extra people. What has happened? Medical card eligibility is not to be extended and the expectations of 200,000 potential beneficiaries have been shattered. Private beds in public hospitals will now cost 10% more and twice within a matter of months the drugs payment scheme charges have been increased.