Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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606. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide some of the anticipated 2021 cost savings from the recent HSE Medicines Management Programme Preferred Blood Glucose Strips for adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes evaluation to fund the provision of the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age based on clinical need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23063/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Under the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013, the HSE has statutory responsibility for the administration of the community drug schemes; therefore, the matter has been referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.