Tony Gregory (Dublin Central, Independent)
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Question 279: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1 who has a medical card but was obliged to pay to attend a consultant will be reimbursed for the cost involved. [36146/06]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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Where a patient opts to see a consultant in a private capacity the fee charged is a private contractual arrangement between the patient and the consultant. Neither my Department nor the Health Service Executive has any responsibility for the reimbursement of such fees.