Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
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204. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 412 of 27 January 2015, 120 of 2 December 2015 and 334 of 2 February 2016, the status of the response by the Health Service Executive to this issue; to request an update from pharmacy interface project; and his plans with regard to resolving this anomaly. [18945/16]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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My Department previously asked the HSE to explore administrative changes that would enable a single rather than multiple prescription charge to be deducted across multiple strengths of the same product, (e.g. warfarin), and the HSE has reached agreement with the Irish Pharmacy Union on a mechanism to deliver this functionality within the Pharmacy Interface Project.

I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly regarding the latest status of this project. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days, please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.