988. Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Minister for Health the considerations that his Department is giving to the inclusion of the drugs saxenda and ozempic, both now recognised as valuable medications in the treatment of obesity, to the drugs payment scheme or medical card scheme for non-diabetic patients; if there are plans to widen the prescription of saxenda and ozempic to medical card holders with a BMI of greater than 35 as a preventative medicine or to those over 70 years; to outline the current criteria being used to determine prescribing these drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40310/23]

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988. Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Minister for Health the considerations that his Department is giving to the inclusion of the drugs saxenda and ozempic, both now recognised as valuable medications in the treatment of obesity, to the drugs payment scheme or medical card scheme for non-diabetic patients; if there are plans to widen the prescription of saxenda and ozempic to medical card holders with a BMI of greater than 35 as a preventative medicine or to those over 70 years; to outline the current criteria being used to determine prescribing these drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40310/23]

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