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Fri 10 Oct 2008Groups campaign to reverse decision
LOBBYING:LOBBY GROUPS working with the elderly are mounting a campaign to get the Government to reverse its budget decision on limiting access to medical cards for the over-70s.
Tadgh Daly, chief executive of Nursing Homes Ireland, the representative group for the private and voluntary nursing homes sector, condemned the new arrangement, saying it had caused unprecedented distress among older people.
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