Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 1 February 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting
9:30 am
Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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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.