Kenny ‘paid lip service’ to boy denied medical card

The Taoiseach was accused of “paying lip service” to the case of an eight-year-old boy with Down’s syndrome, fighting for his medical card, who he has yet to make contact with a month after pledging to meet him.

Enda Kenny said at his party’s conference in Limerick that he would be happy to meet Ronan Whitehouse, who waited outside the meeting for three hours so he could ask the Taoiseach for his medical card back.

His mother, Noreen Keane, said she feels the comments by Mr Kenny were an “empty gesture” to “move the story along” after her son’s case was highlighted by the Irish Examiner.