Written answers
Tuesday, 27 May 2014
Department of Health
Medical Card Reviews
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)
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800. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the medical card section cannot or will not make a direct call to the relevant doctor to ascertain if the medical card recipient's outlined medical circumstances have changed since they last applied [22645/14]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)
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802. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider making it permissible for the medical card section to confirm with local authorities whether the person's rent has changed since they were last reviewed [22647/14]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)
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803. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider making it the task of the staff of the medical card section to gather the relevant information from the professional bodies concerned when assessing medical card applications from disabled persons [22648/14]
Alex White (Dublin South, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 800, 802 and 803 together.
The information sought by the Deputy is not readily available. However, I have asked the Health Service Executive to supply this information to me and I will forward it to the Deputy as soon as possible.
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