Written answers
Monday, 11 September 2017
Department of Health
Drugs Payment Scheme
Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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824. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reduce the €144 maximum charge on the drugs payment scheme; the status of his plans to reduce the cost of medicines by reducing the annual co-payment on the drugs payment scheme as committed to in the programme for government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37012/17]
Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The Programme for Partnership Government contains a commitment to reduce the cost of medicines by reducing the annual co-payment on the Drugs Payment Scheme and reducing prescription charges for medical card holders. I intend to consider the Drugs Payment Scheme threshold in the context of the health commitments in the Programme for Government, and having regard to the funding available.
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