Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 30 September 2014
379. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that when a person's medication dose for some drugs is increased on their prescription, that is Butrans, from 20 mg to 30 mg they are charged €5 twice because the patch only contains 20 mg. [36755/14]
View answerMedical card holders are required to pay a €2.50 charge per item for medicines and other prescription items supplied to them by community pharmacists, subject to a cap of €25 per month for each person or family.
Where a drug or medicine is required to be dispensed in different strengths and different containers, a prescription charge applies to each claimed strength of the product.
This raises policy issues surrounding the implementation of prescription charges which I am currently considering.
