50 Deputy Paul Gogarty asked the Minister for Health and Children her views on the threat to jobs in the pharmaceutical sector posed by the proposed changes in reimbursement of pharmacists for drugs dispensed under the medical card scheme, both at wholesale and at retail level, as outlined in the submissions of representatives of retail pharmacists and of a company (details supplied) to Indecon, and implied by the warnings of potential negative impacts and market disruption contained in the Indecon report on pharmacy wholesale margins; if the potential negative impact of these changes in terms of economic competitiveness and viability on young pharmacists who have incurred high set-up costs in recent years is of particular concern to her; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31763/07]

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50 Deputy Paul Gogarty asked the Minister for Health and Children her views on the threat to jobs in the pharmaceutical sector posed by the proposed changes in reimbursement of pharmacists for drugs dispensed under the medical card scheme, both at wholesale and at retail level, as outlined in the submissions of representatives of retail pharmacists and of a company (details supplied) to Indecon, and implied by the warnings of potential negative impacts and market disruption contained in the Indecon report on pharmacy wholesale margins; if the potential negative impact of these changes in terms of economic competitiveness and viability on young pharmacists who have incurred high set-up costs in recent years is of particular concern to her; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31763/07]

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