187. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the reason hospitals cannot write prescriptions for medical card patients on discharge; the reason ill patients are required to attend their general practitioner for prescriptions after leaving hospital; the annual cost to the State of this regulation; if it is his intention to remove this requirement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4428/14]

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187. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the reason hospitals cannot write prescriptions for medical card patients on discharge; the reason ill patients are required to attend their general practitioner for prescriptions after leaving hospital; the annual cost to the State of this regulation; if it is his intention to remove this requirement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4428/14]

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