The Minister for Health has agreed to extend automatic medical cards to all children where families are in receipt of domiciliary care allowance.

Simon Harris announced the law change in a late sitting of the Dáil last night.

Great to see @campaign_ire in the Dail as I outlined plan to provide an automatic medical card to children with Domiciliary Care Allowance

— Simon Harris TD (@SimonHarrisTD) July 19, 2016

The Government originally planned to award the cards to around 10-thousand children after the budget.

But Sinn Féin's motion to speed up the process received cross-party support yesterday.