Written answers

Tuesday, 6 November 2018

Department of Health

General Medical Services Scheme

Photo of Tom NevilleTom Neville (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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619. To ask the Minister for Health if a person can have a pyroluria test carried out under the medical card GMS scheme in view of the fact that persons are reporting that it costs circa €400 for the test. [45184/18]

Photo of Simon HarrisSimon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The HSE has advised me that as pyroluria testing has not been shown to be clinically effective this service would not be covered under the GMS scheme.

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