1499. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Health the steps that he will take to ensure that existing policy barriers are removed to ensure that Ireland honours its commitment to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030, in particular the requirement that patients need to be engaged with opioid substitution to be treated in the community or by their general practitioner and the barriers to community pharmacists managing and dispensing hepatitis C medications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29468/22]

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1499. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Health the steps that he will take to ensure that existing policy barriers are removed to ensure that Ireland honours its commitment to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030, in particular the requirement that patients need to be engaged with opioid substitution to be treated in the community or by their general practitioner and the barriers to community pharmacists managing and dispensing hepatitis C medications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29468/22]

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