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THE DIRECTOR GENERAL of the HSE is insisting parents of children with life-long conditions or illnesses were not asked to prove whether they had that condition.
It follows the long-running controversy surrounding the review of discretionary medical cards, which was halted entirely by the Government last week.
It was announced yesterday that an expert panel is being appointed to examine how medical need should be taken into account when the cards are being granted.
Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland today, Tony O’Brien said there had been individual incidents “where we have already acknowledged we got it wrong” and that the HSE had already apologised to the people in question.
“But I also have to say there are many incidents put into the public domain recently that are not true characterisations of the facts,” O’Brien said
I think that’s a feature of the general climate of fear that has existed.
Asked whether he was referring to cases where it was reported parents had been asked to prove whether children still had a particular condition, O’Brien said:
I am saying questions were asked that were not those questions, but which may have been interpreted as that.
“We are obliged, for example, to ensure that we take full account of any costs that a family may have that arise from a change in their circumstances — perhaps an exacerbation of an illness or a secondary illness.
“When we ask has there been any change in circumstances, that’s what we’re asking. We’re not asking does the person still have the particular life-long condition that they’ve had.”
O’Brien said he accepted misunderstandings had taken place and that people would be given an opportunity “to review the tapes of those recordings to satisfy themselves”.
“We certainly would never wish to cause that kind of concern,” O’Brien said.
Review
On the subject of the options facing people who had already lost their medical card, O’Brien said it would be difficult for the HSE to reissue them “because individuals who have already lost their medical cards had been assessed and found not to qualify”.
However he added:
Minister Reilly and Minister White are working on arrangements that will enable us or authorise us to reissue those medical cards and government has committed to examining that very quickly.
He said the process was expected to be completed in “a matter of weeks”.
The HSE announced yesterday that an expert panel of 23 medical professionals will examine which medical conditions should automatically qualify a person for a medical card. A public consultation process also gets under way today.
O’Brien said the panel was facing into “a challenging task”.
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They should keep off those porn sites, nothing but trouble………..
You seem to be very familiar with those sites!
I was until I caught a virus……..
its those genuine girls in your area who always trick you
Better to get a virus from the promiscuous ladies on your computer than a virus from the promiscuous lady on the street
Was it blue flu?
I thought the same Sean?
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I have Chlamydia,
now you have too……
Swine flu, no?
No point catching the virus, he will get suspended sentence. They need to eliminate it completely.
The virus had 142 previous infections, but was a mutation from a troubled virus.
Hahaha
I’m not confident in the integrity of the security of Garda IT systems.
Rumour has it the virus refused to start working unless it got a pay rise
It was the blue flu virus.
I’ve long suspected that Garda Management have been infected by malware planted by the Government that affects their ability to represent the best interests of the force, and of the public and allows them sit idly by and let their numbers, resources & morale be decimated- telling us all the while that they are adequately resourced.
Our police force is unfit for purpose. A shower of scruffy, unwashed money grabbers. A national embarrassment
Was in a shop last week, when a female police officer was buying a breakfast roll. Christ her tie was still covered from yolk from her previous roll. Her hair was u kept, trousers looked like she’s slept in them, and her shoes looked like they’d been lying in a big. Disgusting
You really are the biggest tool who posts on the Journal. You should invest some of that spare time in learning the English language.
Are you one of that disgusting police force Martie?
Maybe she spent her night dealing with calls from your filthy riff raff housing estate.
Nothing like a girl in uniform, then add a breakfast roll into the equation. Happy Days!
God no! I don’t live in a housing estate. I only voice my opinion on the state of our police force. No one can deny how scruffy and uninterested they are! It’s all well and good to be patriotic, but some things have to be said.
Dirtbag
Waster
Tell us how you really feel John……..
Even the computers are infected along with everything else in the AGS
So Gardai are claiming they found a Zero day? If so, that is really good cyber Forensics work on their part!
I highly doubt it was their detection, more likely something triggered them to bring in a third party to analyse the affected system.
No doubt there will be rumbles of “well maybe we should update to Win 10″ now that it’s no longer free
You couldn’t update from xp which the gardai use.
It wasn’t free for commercial companies to upgrade and if they did upgrade they could be in for some fines if a Microsoft audit ever takes place.
Good aul An Garda Siochana and their Windows Millennium Edition…what hacker would want to write code to infect their outdated systems
Somebody opening those penis enlargement emails.
How else are the guards supposed to download Taylor Swift, after she deleted from Spotify.
Keep taking the ‘tablets’!!!!
Have the ex TD’s given the tablets back yet?
If you’ve been hacked you’ll never know it. unless the inch hacked are released to the public media.
information*
Probably using free AV software
They might have found info on ambassadors and politicians selling Irish passports. They may even have people apply and then look after their application.
Garda.ie is being redesigned, finally!
With all the Garda cutbacks and underfunding, it’s more ‘Heartbeat’ than PULSE. I’d really hate to think anything bad happened to the Operation Mizen files though..
Hope pulse doesn’t spit out all those speeding fines, Especially the supers.
…….
Malwarebytes.
Do the guards actually have a clue these days when it comes to computers? I remember back in the day. The internet a playground for the mischievous and the guards barely knew what a computer was.
Yeah the virus is called the blue flu!
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