Michael Lowry (Tipperary, Independent)
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1854.To ask the Minister for Health the considerations that his Department is giving to the inclusion of a drug (details supplied), which is now recognised as valuable medication in the treatment of obesity, to the drugs payment scheme or medical card scheme for non-diabetic patients; if there are plans to widen the prescription of the drug to medical card holders as a preventative medicine or to those under 60 years; to outline the current criteria being used to determine prescribing these drugs; if this drug can be made available to a person; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35399/24]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.