Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 289: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to engage in service level agreements with pharmacies to provide new services such as INR monitoring, health screening and so on; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29694/09]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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I am generally supportive of the possibility of pharmacists being more pro-active in the area of health promotion and screening as part of the development of primary care services generally. Having regard to the economic difficulties that we face, any such developments would have to contribute to an overall reduction in health spending.