Medical card scandal still not put to bed despite arrival of Varadkar

Leo I thought you were different, please prove me right.

A boy under ten, with a lifelong condition waiting for another major operation. His family desperately wanting him to be called as soon as possible, but at the same time were praying it wouldn’t be too soon as his medical card renewal, three months later, had still not been processed.

A man with a heart condition in a hospital bed having suffered a stroke after he and his wife made the difficult choice to buy her medication instead of his. They couldn’t afford both while they were waiting months for their medical card renewal to be processed.