Mother fighting for son’s medical card wants Kenny to answer her questions

The mother of a boy who is fighting to have his medical card reinstated said she would be delighted to meet the Taoiseach because she has questions she would like him to answer.

Despite suffering an eye infection, Ronan Woodhouse, 8, stood for three hours in the cold outside the Fine Gael conference in Limerick on Friday, but Enda Kenny drove past him without acknowledging his plea to “give back my medical card”.

Ronan was born with Down’s syndrome and suffers chronic asthma, sight difficulties, hearing loss, and thyroid problems, and needs a lot of medication and many visits to the GP. The discretionary medical card he has had since he was born was unexpectedly withdrawn despite the Government repeatedly insisting there has been no change in policy.