Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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379. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that when a person's medication dose for some drugs is increased on their prescription, that is Butrans, from 20mg to 30mg they are charged €5 twice because the patch only contains 20mg. [36755/14]

Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)
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Medical card holders are required to pay a €2.50 charge per item for medicines and other prescription items supplied to them by community pharmacists, subject to a cap of €25 per month for each person or family.

Where a drug or medicine is required to be dispensed in different strengths and different containers, a prescription charge applies to each claimed strength of the product.

This raises policy issues surrounding the implementation of prescription charges which I am currently considering.