Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 136: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has made provision in the 2006 Estimates for any change in the excess which applies in respect of the drug refund scheme; and the value which will apply in 2006. [36042/05]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The current threshold for the drugs payment scheme, which came into effect in January 2005, is €85. No provision has been made in the recently published Abridged Estimates volume to alter this threshold in 2006.