Noel Rock (Dublin North West, Fine Gael)
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1144. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has plans to tackle the issue of persons overpaying for prescription charges (details supplied). [24979/16]

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.

The HSE is currently working with the Irish Pharmacy Union on a project to improve the interface between pharmacy contractors and the HSE. This project includes a commitment to develop a means by which medical card holders who are prescribed a drug that is currently required to be dispensed in different strengths and different containers are levied on the basis of a single prescription charge.