Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 236: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there is a maximum payment for a visit to a general practitioner or if it is that the GP can charge for a consultation and a further charge for a prescription in the same consultative visit; if a GP is entitled to charge a fee to a person seeking a medical certificate for a person's work commitments, if the person has been charged above the stated rate if such exists, or if they are charged in respect of the medical certificate; the appeal mechanism available to the person; the mechanism available to such a person to obtain a GP service if his or her GP adopts any or all of these discretions; if no mechanisms are available to appeal exists, her plans to implement limits or protection of patients in the context of overcharging or incorrectly charging with regard to medical certificates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10399/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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Consultation fees charged to private patients by general practitioners are a matter of private contract between the two parties, the doctor as the service provider and the patient as the user. I have no role in relation to such fees. General Practitioners who hold General Medical Services (GMS) contracts with the Health Service Executive (HSE) must not seek or accept money from medical card or GP visit card holders in respect of routine treatment.