Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

3273. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost to reduce prescription charges by €0.50. [41205/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

The full year cost of reducing prescription charges by €0.50c for those over 70 is estimated at €12.5m.

The full year cost of reducing prescription charges by €0.50c for those under 70 is estimated at €12.1m.

Therefore the total full year cost of reducing prescription charges for both cohorts is estimated at €24.6m.

Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

3274. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost to abolish prescription charges. [41206/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

The cost to the State of abolishing prescription charges is estimated at €61.2m.

Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

3275. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of reducing the DPS threshold to €50 and €100, respectively. [41207/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

As this Parliamentary Question relates to data only available through completion of a detailed analytical exercise, the Deputy is advised that the HSE is currently not in a position to provide such data by closing date for the Parliamentary Question. I am advised that due to the recent cyber-attack, the disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE will be in a position to provide material for response in due course. Once this data is received, my Department will forward same to the Deputy.