Martin Ferris (Kerry North, Sinn Fein)
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Question 152: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the medical card covers the cost of a general practitioner issuing a sick certificate. [42949/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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Under the General Medical Services (GMS) Scheme, section 11 of the 1989 Capitation Contract states:

"The Medical practitioner shall:—

furnish to a person whom he has examined and for whom he is obliged to provide services (or, in the case of a child, to his parent) a certificate in relation, to any illness noticed during the examination which is reasonably required by him or by the parent as the case may be".