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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (26 Mar 2013)

Alex White: As the Deputy will be aware, there are many hundreds of new medical technologies and drugs that come on stream every year.  It is essential that the effectiveness of any new device or drug is fully reviewed to ensure it delivers improved outcomes for the patient and value for money for the state.  The Art Assist pump is currently being examined for its clinical efficacy and is being...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility (26 Mar 2013)

Alex White: There are no plans to extend the list of conditions covered by the Long Term Illness Scheme. Under the Drug Payment Scheme, no individual or family pays more than €144 per calendar month towards the cost of approved prescribed medicines. The scheme significantly reduces the cost burden for families and individuals incurring ongoing expenditure on medicines. In addition, people who...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Medical Card Applications (26 Mar 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Topical Issue Debate: Prescription Charges (27 Mar 2013)

Alex White: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue. As indicated by him, a recently published survey by the National Consumer Agency found substantial variations in the prices charged for prescription medicines in pharmacies. At national level, the percentage difference found in the prices of 39 individual prescription medicines ranged from 37% to 199%, the average percentage difference...

Topical Issue Debate: Prescription Charges (27 Mar 2013)

Alex White: I reiterate that the concern the Deputy has raised is one that is widely shared. The National Consumer Agency report is useful because it focuses public attention on the particular instances the agency has addressed. The Deputy is absolutely right that this is a matter of continuing concern. It is of continuing concern to me, as a Minister of State with responsibility in the area, to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (27 Mar 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (27 Mar 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (27 Mar 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol-Related Illnesses (27 Mar 2013)

Alex White: The National Substance Misuse Strategy Steering Group reported that alcohol-related illness cost the healthcare system an estimated €1.2 billion in 2007. It further reported that it was estimated that of this figure, €500 million was in the acute hospital sector, €574 million was in General Practitioner and allied health services and €104 million was in mental...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Misuse Programmes (27 Mar 2013)

Alex White: I propose to take Questions Nos. 292 and 293 together. I am pleased to inform the Deputy that real and tangible proposals are currently being finalised on foot of the recommendations in the National Substance Misuse Strategy Steering Group report. These proposals cover all of the areas mentioned in the report. These include the recommendations to further develop a co-ordinated approach to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (27 Mar 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (27 Mar 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (27 Mar 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (27 Mar 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hearing Impairment Assessments (27 Mar 2013)

Alex White: The information requested is currently being collated by the HSE and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as it is available.

Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Alex White: The maintenance of health services is a priority in 2013 for the Government, despite the need for significant and difficult financial savings in the health area. In the context of the very difficult financial circumstances in which the State has found itself in recent years, it is the Government?s intention that front line health services would be protected to the greatest extent possible....

Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Alex White: Is that in the manifesto? I do not recall seeing it.

Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Alex White: That is what it says.

Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Alex White: They all get GP visit cards.

Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Alex White: To clarify, nobody loses access to free GP care cover as a result of this Bill. The full medical card is removed from 20,000 people but each of those people will continue to have access to free GP care.