Government may never be forgiven, warn elderly

THE Government was warned yesterday that it may never be forgiven for ending the automatic entitlement to a medical card for everyone over 70.

A group of more than 200 members of Active Retirement Ireland yesterday met the Minister of State with responsibility for elderly people, Máire Hoctor, who was last week booed off the stage at a protest over the medical card controversy outside Leinster House.

Ms Hoctor admitted that a number of issues have to be ironed out in relation to the medical card scheme.