Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 50: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the general practitioner only cards do not cover a patient wishing to obtain the services of Irish Family Planning Association; if it is her intention to include this vital service to the GP only medical cards to persons who may not afford it otherwise; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12082/07]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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I have been informed by the Health Service Executive that the Irish Family Planning Association's Dublin clinics are funded by the Executive to provide family planning services free of charge to medical card holders and to GP visit card holders who attend at these clinics. Family planning services are also available for medical card holders and GP visit card holders from the majority of GMS contract holding general practitioners. If a GP does not provide family planning services, he/she is obliged to refer a patient to a GP who will provide this service.