Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 26 October 2017
186. Deputy Michael Moynihan asked the Minister for Health if the medical card scheme covers the cost of general practitioners completing application forms for persons who hold a medical card, such as driving licence applications and local authority grant applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45527/17]
View answerThe GMS GP contract stipulates that fees are not paid to GPs by the HSE in respect of certain medical certificates which may be required, for example, "under the Social Welfare Acts or for the purposes of insurance or assurance policies or for the issue of driving licences". The completion of forms required for local authority grant applications would also be outside the terms of the GMS contract.
Consultation fees charged by GPs outside the terms of the GMS or GP Visit Card contracts are a matter of private contract between clinicians and their patients. I have no role in relation to such fees.
