Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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401. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding prescription charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9001/15]

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 single prescribed item is required to be dispensed in different strengths and different containers and therefore claimed as more than one item, a prescription charge will apply to each claimed strength of the product. This raises policy issues surrounding the implementation of prescription charges which is still under review.