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Wed 02 Feb 2010Processing of over-70s medical cards criticised
THE NEW centralised system for the processing of medical card applications for those aged over 70 years was yesterday described as “completely and utterly dysfunctional” at a meeting of the Oireachtas health committee.
Labour TD Róisín Shortall told the committee people were waiting months for their applications to be processed since the service was centralised in Finglas, Dublin, and there have been instances of applications, which were lodged, getting lost not once or twice but three times.
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