Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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446. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to lower the prescription charges for certain persons (details supplied). [37263/18]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Medical card holders are required to pay a prescription charge of €2.00 per item for medicines and other prescription items supplied to them by community pharmacists under the General Medical Services scheme. This charge is subject to a monthly cap of €20 for each person or family.

Any future changes to the prescription charge is a matter which I intend to consider in the context of the implementation of the Health commitments in the Programme for Government and having regard to the funding available to facilitate such measures.