Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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1450. To ask the Minister for Health the revenue raised from prescription charges in 2015 and to date in 2016. [26199/16]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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According to the HSE's 2015 annual report, revenue from the medical card prescription charge was €113 million in 2015. The most recent data available from the HSE indicates that revenue from the prescription charge for the first eight months of 2016 was approximately €80 million.