Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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108. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deliver on the 2016 review of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Acts, which recommended changes to remuneration structures for community pharmacy contractors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45591/19]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Under section 9(13) of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009, the Minister for Health was obliged to carry out an annual review of the operation, effectiveness and impact of the amounts and rates set by regulation under the Act.

I wish to advise the Deputy that the 2016 review recommended that rates set in the regulations should be left unchanged at that point.

The review also noted that any changes to remuneration structures should be linked to Government priorities for the health service and service or contractual developments.