Colm Burke (Cork North-Central, Fine Gael)
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185. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider reducing the threshold of the drugs payment scheme to €72 per month, as per the 2017 Sláintecare report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9954/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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The Drugs Payment Scheme (DPS) provides for the refund of the amount by which expenditure on approved prescribed medicines or medical appliances exceeds a named threshold in any calendar month. The DPS is not means tested and is available to anyone ordinarily resident in Ireland. The DPS threshold was reduced twice in 2022:

• From €114 to €100 per month on 1 January 2022.
• From €100 to €80 per month on 1 March 2022.