Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I will wrap up. I will make a very short response if the Acting Chairman gives me a bit of leeway.

The patient or the person caring for the patient can be made aware of the requirements of the review and if necessary can be assisted in completing the forms by hand or on-line. The Minister of State will say that many pharmacists can deal with the prescriptions. I propose that the notification would go through the last pharmacist. When I dealt with these cases I asked the people to provide a print-out of their pharmacy costs. In all cases they came from one pharmacy. Most people deal with one pharmacist. I am sure that the Minister of State’s research will show this. I await the Minister of State’s reply and will then make additional comments.

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