Marie Moloney (Labour) | Oireachtas source

If it was not a discretionary medical card, why did the person's husband not have a medical card? Why did she get a medical card when her financial circumstances are the same now as they were back then? Nothing has changed and the thresholds have not increased. There seems to be some sort of a communication breakdown in this case. This woman had a discretionary medical card - the HSE may not want to call it that - because of her health condition while her husband did not have one.

The only option left for this woman is to take her case to the Ombudsman because she obviously has been treated unfairly. I will suggest she follows this course of action as it is the only one to prove the HSE made a mistake.