Medical Card Data

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 22 January 2014

Wednesday, 22 January 2014

Questions (211)

Micheál Martin

Question:

211. Deputy Micheál Martin asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 342 of 19 December 2013, if 20,000 medical cards were issued on a discretionary basis in 2013 to cardholders who did not hold a medical card on a discretionary basis in 2012. [3037/14]

Written answers

Minister of State at the Department of Health (Deputy Alex White)

The HSE has confirmed that, with reference to the reply of 19 December 2013, some 23,000 new medical cards have been issued on a discretionary basis.