Taoiseach insists 'no change at all' in how medical cards are allocated
The issue of discretionary medical cards was raised by Fianna Fáil in the Dáil this morning.
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Problems facing some chronically ill people who cannot access discretionary medical cards were raised in the Dáil this week. Here are just some of the stories placed on the Dáil record.
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As Gerry Adams told Enda Kenny to resign in the Dáil today, the Taoiseach blamed “systems failures” for problems with discretionary medical cards.
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Enda Kenny said nobody told him about the case of eight-year-old Ronan Woodhouse at the Fine Gael conference last month, despite committing to meeting the child and his mother at that event.
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Gerry Adams said water charges indicated how “far removed” the government is from the general public.
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That’s the argument Sinn Féin will make in the Dáil today.
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The story was one of many outlined as part of a Sinn Féin motion this evening.
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The finance minister said acting this week would be dismissed as a “stunt”.
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Enda Kenny said proposals were being submitted tomorrow in a bid to fix the problems with the system.
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Enda Kenny said yesterday that he plans to fix the problem where discretionary medical cards are being removed from ill children.
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A panel of experts will he set up by the HSE to assess the conditions that qualify under medical need.
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The junior minister admitted that the government was “too slow to move on the issue”.
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The HSE said there are legal issues surrounding the reinstating of discretionary medical cards that have already been taken away.
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From January 2013 to April 2014 there was a fall-off of 16,000 discretionary medical cards.
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The finance minister said he found a lump on his shoulder in February.
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Minister James Reilly also apologised for distress caused by the issue, the Our Children’s Health group said.
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Sinn Féin’s leader said there is a conflict of interest for the director of the West/North West Hospital Group, Noel Daly.
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John McGuinness called on the HSE’s Director General and the Secretary General of the Department of Health to resign.
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It was outlined in the Dáil yesterday that discretionary medical cards won’t be returned until Cabinet comes up with a ‘legal formula’.
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Gerry Adams said the “embarrassing u-turn” proved that James Reilly should not continue as health minister.
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Campaigners want temporary measures to be introduced that will improve the application process for new applicants.
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The closing date for submissions to the expert panel is today.
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Epipens, discretionary medical cards and medicinal marijuana all came up in today’s Oireachtas Health Committee meeting. There was even a Beyoncé & Jay Z reference.
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I have a significant physical disability; my experience over the past seven months proves that medical card fiasco rumbles on.
View ArticleAnyone with a reinstated discretionary medical card ‘need not worry’
The Minister for Health said he will bring a series of proposals to Cabinet in the coming weeks on discretionary medical card reform.
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“Do you think the Government would give a card back just if people wrote to them? Not in a million years. Not on your nelly.”
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