Erin McGreehan (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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911. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider reducing the drugs payment scheme threshold from €80 back to €53 per month, in light of ongoing cost-of-living pressures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39011/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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The Drugs Payment Scheme (DPS) ensures that expenditure on approved prescribed medicines or medical appliances does not exceed a named threshold in any calendar month.

The DPS is not means tested and is available to anyone ordinarily resident in Ireland. Currently, the DPS threshold is €80, so no individual or family pays more than that a month on approved prescribed medicines or medical appliances.

Consideration of further changes to the DPS threshold will be made in the context of current healthcare priorities and the budget available.