192 Mr. McCormack asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the extreme difficulty being experienced by applicants for medical card services whereby general practitioners are refusing to sign medical card applications due to their ongoing difficulties with her Department; if her attention has further been drawn to the fact that this is now making it impossible for persons to apply for medical cards in view of the fact that community welfare officers cannot sign applications due to the absence of a general practitioner’s signature; the way in which she proposes to solve this problem; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22089/05]

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192 Mr. McCormack asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the extreme difficulty being experienced by applicants for medical card services whereby general practitioners are refusing to sign medical card applications due to their ongoing difficulties with her Department; if her attention has further been drawn to the fact that this is now making it impossible for persons to apply for medical cards in view of the fact that community welfare officers cannot sign applications due to the absence of a general practitioner’s signature; the way in which she proposes to solve this problem; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22089/05]

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1. 28 June 2005

   Medical Cards.

   192 Mr. McCormack asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the extreme difficulty being experienced by applicants for medical card services whereby general practitioners are refusing to sign medical card applications due to their ongoing difficulties with her Department; if her attention has further been drawn to the fact that this is now making it impossible for persons to apply for medical cards in view of the fact that community welfare officers cannot sign applications due to the absence of a general practitioner’s signature; the way in which she proposes to solve this problem; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22089/05]

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