Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 November 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards

12:20 pm

Photo of Áine CollinsÁine Collins (Cork North West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On a personal note, I have a child with a long-term illness who requires a drug called Creon. When we go on holidays we have had to buy it because we forgot to bring it with us. The State provides the drug here. We paid, I think, €8 in Portugal. I have sometimes bought it here because things happen when one is moving around, and it cost €28, for the same quantity of the drug, approximately 100 capsules. That happened in the past two years. There is obviously some work still to be done.

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