Medical card issue left to fester

No one in Government is willing to take the blame for the medical card fiasco but Health Minister James Reilly looks likely to become the fall guy, writes Political Editor Mary Regan.

IT WAS a cold October evening when Taoiseach Enda Kenny missed his chance for an encounter that might have forewarned him of the current medical card mess.

As he was driven into a Limerick’s South Court hotel on a Friday evening for his party’s ard fheis, he went past eight-year-old Ronan Woodhouse who has Down Syndrome and was holding up a sign.