Jerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Kelleher is right in that we as a nation and society need to look at over-prescribing. If a survey was carried out in every house, it would probably find cupboards full of half-used bottles of tablets or prescription medicines. I am not a pharmacist but the people with which I deal in Cork are the most professional, thorough and caring people and a huge resource within society that is perhaps undervalued, as Deputy Kelleher said. An individual I know who works in a pharmacy takes time to deal with people. I would love if the Government would look at the issue of over-prescribing.