Written answers
Tuesday, 2 April 2019
Department of Health
Drugs Payment Scheme Expenditure
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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257. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost in 2019 of the €10 reduction in the monthly drugs payment scheme threshold from €134 to €124; and the estimated full year cost of same. [14797/19]
Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The cost of reducing the Drugs Payment Scheme monthly threshold by €10 from €134 to €124 is estimated at €4.3 m in 2019.
The full year cost of this measure is estimated at €5.7 m.
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