Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Select Committee on Health
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary)
2:00 am
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
That is reasonable. Of the cost, 35% relates to the drugs payment scheme, 30% related to the threshold reductions this year; 5% relates to improved longevity, which is good; 30% of the additional relates to medical cards and GP visit cards, exactly as the Deputy has said, and that would be higher were people to take it up, so we have to hope they will and we will plan for that; and 25% relates to HSE direct expenditure on high-cost drugs, for which there has been a particular need this year.
Sorry, I can see that the Deputy wants to say something.
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