Joe Carey (Clare, Fine Gael)
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823. To ask the Minister for Health when legislation will be introduced to amend the qualifying criteria for persons aged over 70 years of age to entitle them to a medical card if their gross weekly income is less than €550 per week as a single person or €1,050 as a couple; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17971/20]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The Health (General Practitioner Service and Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2020 was published on 1 July.  This Bill provides, amongst other things, for the necessary legislative amendments to increase the weekly gross medical card income limits for those aged 70 and over to €550 per week for a single person (currently €500 per week) and to €1,050 for a couple (currently €900 per week).  The Bill completed its passage through the Houses of the Oireachtas on July 24th and is now being prepared for signature by the President.