Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the pricing of medicine (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55131/12]

Alex White (Dublin South, Labour)
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The Code of Conduct for Pharmacists issued by the pharmacy regulator (the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland) requires pharmacists, amongst other things, to provide honest, relevant, accurate, current and appropriate information to patients regarding the nature, cost, value and benefit of medicines, health-related products and services provided by them. Every pharmacist has an obligation to comply in full with the statutory Code of Conduct. Patients have every right to ask a pharmacist the reasons for the price they are being charged and if dissatisfied can, if they so choose, transfer their custom to an alternative pharmacy. Expenditure on prescribed medicines is also eligible for tax relief.