Written answers
Wednesday, 6 May 2015
Department of Health
Prescription Charges
Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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378. To ask the Minister for Health if he will revise the prescription charges for medical card holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17745/15]
Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)
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Prescription charges are part of a set of measures introduced by Government in recent years to reduce pharmaceutical drugs expenditure. Medical card holders are required to pay a prescription charge of €2.50 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. Prescription charges do not apply to children in the care of the Health Service Executive or to methadone supplied to patients participating in the Methadone Treatment Scheme.
There are no plans to amend the prescription charge, however, I am pleased that the prescription charge is frozen at the level set in 2014 as was announced as part of the packet of health measures in Budget 2015.
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