GALWAY COUNCILLORS PRESS ON WITH MEDICAL CARDS LOBBY

Date Published: 20-Oct-2008

Galway county councillors are still calling for the Taoiseach to abandon in their entirety plans to introduce means testing on the over-70s for a medical card. That's despite an agreement by the Fianna Fail National councillors Forum to allow Brian Cowen space to deal with the issue. Almost a hundred of the party's councillors met for four hours last night in Ballinasloe, to voice their opposition to the plan.A delegation of Fianna Fail councillors will meet with Finance Minister Brian Lenihan in Dublin tomorrow to discuss the controversy.Ballinasloe County councillor Tomás Mannion says there are other ways to find the funds needed