256 Deputy Joe Costello asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will establish an all-party Oireachtas committee to review the background to the decision to centralise medical card applications and renewals; the connection of centralisation to the 2009 budget decision to means test all persons applying for a medical card aged 70 years and over, which is now enshrined in the Health Act 2008; the preparations undertaken and considerations given to the initiative prior to the announcement to centralise on 24 December 2008; the effects of centralisation on a vulnerable group; the number of cases processed to date in 2010 by the primary care reimbursement service; the number of cases waiting to be processed by the PCRS; the average period to process each case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3049/10]

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256 Deputy Joe Costello asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will establish an all-party Oireachtas committee to review the background to the decision to centralise medical card applications and renewals; the connection of centralisation to the 2009 budget decision to means test all persons applying for a medical card aged 70 years and over, which is now enshrined in the Health Act 2008; the preparations undertaken and considerations given to the initiative prior to the announcement to centralise on 24 December 2008; the effects of centralisation on a vulnerable group; the number of cases processed to date in 2010 by the primary care reimbursement service; the number of cases waiting to be processed by the PCRS; the average period to process each case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3049/10]

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