1480. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health the reason the pilot project providing a GP service for persons with no medical cards is only being provided to the Roma community at Tallaght Hospital, Dublin 24; the amount this service is costing per week; the amount it cost initially to set up; the justification of providing a service to one ethnic community, for instance the reason persons from Bangladesh are not being provided with the same service; the reason persons from Poland are not being provided with the same service; the reason members of our own travelling community not being provided with the same service; his views on whether this not active discrimination of the worst type to pick out one group of persons above everybody else and provide them with a service that absolutely no one else is entitled to, that is, people with no medical cards, being able to walk in and avail of every health service at absolutely no charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38108/13]

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1480. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health the reason the pilot project providing a GP service for persons with no medical cards is only being provided to the Roma community at Tallaght Hospital, Dublin 24; the amount this service is costing per week; the amount it cost initially to set up; the justification of providing a service to one ethnic community, for instance the reason persons from Bangladesh are not being provided with the same service; the reason persons from Poland are not being provided with the same service; the reason members of our own travelling community not being provided with the same service; his views on whether this not active discrimination of the worst type to pick out one group of persons above everybody else and provide them with a service that absolutely no one else is entitled to, that is, people with no medical cards, being able to walk in and avail of every health service at absolutely no charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38108/13]

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