Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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783. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of scraping prescription charges for medical card holders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35675/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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The estimated full-year cost of abolishing all prescription charges is €69m. This costing does not take account of changes in demographics, in eligibility (e.g., changes in the number of medical card holders), or how the removal of prescription charges may impact claimant behaviour.