There's been outcry at the news that cancer patients are no longer automatically entitled to medical cards.
It's emerged that cancer sufferers will now be scrutinised before being given free medical care.
The health minister James Reilly says it'll be up to individual doctors to determine whether a patient should be given a medical card.
Independent Senator and cancer specialist Professor John Crown says the HSE and Department of Health are "incompetent".
And Sinn Fein's Mary Lou McDonald says the move is cruel and heartless.
