Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 29 September 2016
188. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the cost in 2017 of reducing prescription charges to €2 and separately, the cost of reducing to €1.50 and to €1 per prescription while retaining the cap of ten prescriptions as a maximum. [28030/16]
View answerThe estimated cost of reducing the medical card prescription charge to €2, €1.50 and €1 is set out in the following table.
|
Charge (€) |
Cost (€m) |
|
2.00 |
23 |
|
1.50 |
46 |
|
1.00 |
69 |
These estimates assume a monthly cap of ten items per card holder and a linear relationship between the per-item charge and the cost of the reduction.
