Wednesday 04 June 2014 14.46 Minister for Finance Michael Noonan has said that people who have had their discretionary medical cards withdrawn will have them reinstated.
Asked in Irish if people would be getting their cards back, the minister said that they would.
Speaking to reporters outside Government Buildings, he said it is the intention of Minister for Health James Reilly and the Government to find a resolution to the medical cards "crisis" that featured throughout the recent election campaign.
Mr Reilly has been tasked by the Cabinet to prepare options on how to deal with the issue.
A spokesperson for Mr Reilly said he was working closely with his departmental officials, the Health Service Executive and the Attorney General on the issue.
The HSE decided last week to suspend reviews of discretionary card reviews or appeals that are under way.
It said today it is notifying people affected by this through the normal routes, including text message.
Last week, it said anyone who lost their cards before the review was suspended would not get them back because it is not legally possible.
In a statement this afternoon, the HSE reiterated that legal position.
It said: "With regards to individuals who had already lost their medical card following a review, there is currently no legal basis under which the HSE can reinstate eligibility.
"Identifying the appropriate legal and legislative measures required to provide medical card eligibility on the basis of medical need will be undertaken as part of the review of the legislative framework, supported by the work of the expert panel currently being established by the HSE."
Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar earlier confirmed that the issue of returning discretionary medical cards to those who have lost them was discussed at yesterday's Cabinet meeting.
Speaking in Dublin, he said over the next one or two weeks the cases of those who have lost their cards will be considered.
Mr Varadkar said: "It's important to remember why the review of discretionary medical cards was done in the first place.
"There was a lot of inconsistency when it came to discretionary cards."
It was also found that a number of people who had discretionary cards were dead, in some cases they had left the country and doctors were still being paid for those people, he said.
But the minister said that the review process upset a lot of people, even though in 96% of cases their cards were not removed.
The Government has faced mounting criticism for the review process, with it being blamed for both Labour and Fine Gael's poor performances in the Local and European Elections.
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