Official Engagements Dail Éireann — 2025-12-03 ============================================================ Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central The Deputy can do that. Joe Duffy was put in prison as a result of that protest. It was to do with medical cards. There you are now. Students in this country automatically had medical cards at one time. That was taken away in the eighties. The point is that legitimate protests----- --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2025-12-03/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:54:24+00:00 Sitting date: 2025-12-03