Nora Owen
Question:64 Mrs. Owen asked the Minister for Health if he will list motor neurone disease as a long term illness to enable sufferers to acquire a long term illness card.
Written Answers. - Classification of Motor Neurone Disease.
I do not intend to extend the list of conditions covered by the long term illness scheme.
Persons with this condition who in the opinion of the chief executive officer of the appropriate health board are unable to meet their medical costs without undue hardship will be granted a medical card. Other persons with the condition are entitled to a drug cost subsidisation card which limits their expenditure on prescribed medicines to £32 per month.