Written answers

Tuesday, 9 June 2015

Department of Social Protection

Treatment Benefit Scheme Administration

Photo of Jack WallJack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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251. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there is assistance available for a person needing replacement glasses; if there is a maximum contribution paid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22179/15]

Photo of Joan BurtonJoan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The treatment benefit scheme provides for a free biennial eye examination to persons qualified under this PRSI based scheme. There is no assistance available for the purchase of spectacles under the treatment benefit scheme.

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