Tomás MacGiolla
Question:64 Tomás Mac Giolla asked the Minister for Health if it is intended to implement regulations enabling hospitals to deduct the main part of the income of certain medical card holders who spend more than 30 days in hospital; his views on whether this could lead to the anomalous situation whereby a medical card patient existing on social welfare or very low pay, will lose virtually all their income, while a person earning many times more who is entitled to free hospitalisation will lose nothing; and if he will make a statement on the matter.