Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 27 January 2015
412. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 679 of 25 February 2014 and the subsequent reply under Standing Order 40A, if his attention has been drawn to the anomalous situation which results in medical card holders on mixed dosage medication being charged for each millilitre size as an individual item; his plans to address this problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3918/15]
Amharc ar fhreagraMedical 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 is still under review.
