Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 108: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person who holds a medical card must pay the doctor for a sick certificate or a doctor's letter which has been requested by a third party. [36101/05]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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Under the terms of the general medical services scheme, GMS, contract, participating GPs undertake to provide a range of treatments and general practitioner services for the patients on their GMS panel. Their GMS contracts obliges them to provide the first and last certificates to explain work absence for their patients. The provision of any other certificates or documentation may incur a charge.