Number of GP visit card holders in Dublin ‘shocking’

MORE people have GP-only medical cards in Cork city and county than in Dublin, Fine Gael claimed yesterday.

The party’s Seanad leader Brian Hayes said that figures he had obtained from the Health Services Executive (HSE) showed there was a shockingly low number of GP visit card holders in Dublin.

He described the imbalance between the capital and other regions of the country such as Cork as “unfathomable”.