Last September, Sean's next guest’s young daughter Lucy was diagnosed with cancer. She had to undergo major surgery and is five months into her treatment. Yesterday, her mother received a letter ...
It's been one of the busiest policy announcement weeks since the coalition took office, between social housing initiative, changes to medical cards, details on the HSEs spending plan, extra investment ...
The Cabinet will meet today to discuss the package to solve the medical card problems once and for all. Yesterday the Minister for Health, Leo Varadkar, said he was still ...
Billy Kelleher, Fianna Fáil health spokesman, says it was never going to be possible to draw up a list of medical conditions on which to base the allocation of medical ...
Jonathan Irwin, CEO of the Jack and Jill Foundation, responds to a leaked report which suggests it's not possible to identify a list of medical conditions which would qualify people ...
In a remarkable U-Turn yesterday, the government announced that they would return discretionary medical cards to over 15,000 people who have had them removed between July 2011 and May 2014. ...
The Government yesterday suspended its controversial review of discretionary medical cards. Keelin was joined by Brian Turner, Lecturer in Economics in UCC; and two mothers, Anne FitzPatrick and Karen North.