Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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232. To ask the Minister for Health to examine the case for an addition to the drugs payment scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36269/25]

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 and surgical 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.