Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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758. To ask the Minister for Health if a person on a medical card is covered for steroid injections received from their doctor. [11131/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Under the terms of the current GMS contract, GPs are required to provide eligible patients, those who hold a medical card or GP visit card, with ''all proper and necessary treatment of a kind usually undertaken by a general practitioner and not requiring special skill or experience of a degree or kind which general practitioners cannot reasonably be expected to possess." Steroid injections are not considered a routine service provided by GPs and are not covered under the GMS scheme.