Voices heard at the protest at St Andrew's Church.
"I have only one word for taking away our cards and that is euthanasia. I am so mad."
- Marjorie Parker (72), Booterstown
"If they are looking for savings they can start with the ministerial Mercs."
- Bill Hennessy, Sandycove
"We will be voting the right way when the time comes if something isn't done about this."
- Netta Crowley, Kildare ICA president
"If we were to go to the Government's TDs and Ministers' clinics in groups of ten and 20 and tell them the situation . . . we would disrupt their other business and they would listen to us very quickly."
- Dubliner Tom O'Neill
"Do they want us to just lie down and die?"
- Pat Morgan
"We want certainty and we'll get that if we stick together."
- Rosemary Judge
"Today I say our forefathers must be jumping for joy . Fair play to you all."
- Janette Byrne, patients' rights activist
"I say, tear up the bloody forms."
- Bob Waddell (71), on what the over 70s should do when they get the form for assessing income eligibility for the medical card.
"We're in the house of God and God is behind us."
- Unidentified man