Written answers

Tuesday, 27 July 2021

Department of Health

Medicinal Products

Photo of Cathal CroweCathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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1970. To ask the Minister for Health the process by which drugs are removed from the medical card scheme; and when general practitioners are subsequently informed when a given drug is removed in order to inform their patients and change their prescriptions. [36017/21]

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to restore its IT capacity and resume normal services.

Members of the Oireachtas will be advised as soon as the HSE is again in a position to provide responses to PQs and are encouraged to resubmit their Parliamentary Questions at that point.

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