Paudge Connolly (Cavan-Monaghan, Independent)
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Question 384: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if legislation will be introduced requiring pharmacists to report adverse side effects of drugs on patients to the authorities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34013/06]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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There is no legislation requiring pharmacists to report adverse drug reactions. Nevertheless, pharmacists may, if as part of their professional input into the medicine therapy of their patients they become aware of such reactions, advise the Irish Medicines Board, which is the relevant regulatory authority. I have no plans to introduce legislation requiring pharmacists to report adverse drug reactions.