Dáil
‹ Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Medical Cards Unemployment assistance and medical cards
Summary
O’Toole highlighted an anomaly in which eligibility for unemployment assistance could leave someone ineligible for a medical card; the Ceann Comhairle ruled it a separate question.
Could I ask the Minister one question in two sections? Is the Minister aware that there is a glaring anomaly in his area of responsibility, both in the social welfare and in the health fields in that, on the one hand, the Minister's Department for Social Welfare will declare eligible a person for unemployment assistance and because of that declaration of eligibility he will not qualify for a medical card. There is a terrible anomaly here.
