This morning.
At the Grangegorman Primary Care Centre in Dublin.
Minister for Health Simon Harris and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar hold giant-sized cardboard ‘medical cards’ to launch the Budget 2019 changes which come into effect this week and next week.
Changes include a €10 reduction in the monthly Drugs Payment Scheme threshold from €134 to €124; a 10 per cent increase across all GP visit card weekly income thresholds; and a reduction in prescription charges from €2 to €1.50 for all medical card holders over the age of 70.
Meanwhile…
Those living on the streets, in tents, in hostels, in hotel bedrooms will be delighted. Those sharing bedrooms with strangers bcoz that’s all they can afford will celebrate. Those in debt & struggling to survive will have a party. You’ve destroyed the futures of many Irish people
— alanzfsmith (@alanzfsmith) March 25, 2019
As if they care about the people of this country..
varadkar should stop smiling in photographs
(can you have a word, please, cian?)
ah now @BB
sure that insincere smile & the shiny suit are a vital part of selling white pvc doubleglazed windows & doors
he’d be lost without it
Cain is too busy wiping Leo’s ass
I believe he is selling it on eBay at half of the price of Alex furgersons used chewing gum
I’m surprised they aren’t wearing hard hats and hi-vis jackets.
The state of the Child Catcher in that 2nd photo…
It’s lovely that they have taken this time and effort to make medicines affordable, they really are a caring government looking after the sick, he has my vote anyway
“Those living on the streets, in tents, in hostels, in hotel bedrooms will be delighted. Those sharing bedrooms with strangers bcoz that’s all they can afford will celebrate. ” This is sarcastic because the cohort of the population already get their health care for free anyway so because this small help everyone else doesn’t give them a free house so of course it’s cruel and unfeeling etc..