Michael Bell
Ceist:430 Mr. Bell asked the Minister for Health the reason for the apparent anomaly between the drugs refund scheme and the drug cost subsidisation scheme whereby expenditure on prescribed drugs by dependants is allowed under the drug refund scheme but not under the drugs cost subsidisation scheme except by applying for a refund which takes up to three months in the North Eastern Health Board area; whether this anomaly is contrary to good policy as described on page 22 of an information guide to our health service (details supplied). [513/94]