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- Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (21 Feb 2024)
Matt Shanahan: ...of applications to the HSE via the Health Products Regulatory Authority, HPRA, medicines review group every year, especially in the area of orphan diseases. The Minister will be aware that a number of drugs have come onto the scheme, perhaps more than 150 in recent years. Another 150 are probably out there for specific groups of patients. This will always create a difficult economic...
- Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (21 Feb 2024)
Martin Browne: ...what the Government should be seeking to address in 2024, as Sinn Féin has proposed to do by raising the income threshold to increase the number of medical cards by 400,000 while also reducing the drug payment scheme threshold to €60. The Government needs to take decisions that matter to people and not dabble around for the sake of making it appear it is making a difference...
- Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (21 Feb 2024)
Thomas Gould: ...prescriptions and others get them daily. This would give the people on the ground who know what is happening the ability to make the right decisions. Will the Minister consider naloxone as a drug that could be provided without prescription? We have seen in Dublin and Cork recently the vital work done by groups where we had a series of heroine overdoses. Because people had access to...
- Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (21 Feb 2024)
Duncan Smith: ...the supports provided for pharmacies are expanded as a matter of urgency. Pharmacies have faced a 16-year pay freeze. During that time, the rate paid to dispense medicines under the community drug scheme decreased by 24%, from €6 to €4.58, while the revenue generated by pharmacies under the community drug scheme decreased by 29%. That is not a sustainable trend, nor is it...
- Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (21 Feb 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...money in the bank for people. We should always be conscious of the potential impacts. People will rightly take conscious decisions in respect of what initiatives they take or what they do regarding employment when they are trying to protect their medical cards because, as I say, it really is money in the bank for them. In the context of income, Deputy Cullinane made a valid point on...