Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

But that ties in with the other issue about the use of pharmacies, for instance. We have a whole lot of people having to attend GPs because you cannot open up the whole distribution of medication. If it is a non-prescriptive drug, you could go into ten different pharmacies and get the same drug on the one day whereas if all of that is computerised you could give a lot more work out to pharmacies and people would not have to go to GPs for prescriptions.