Responses to parliamentary questions
Question from Deputy Ken O’Flynn - PQ 38763-26
Deputy O'Flynn asked about the annual cost to the Exchequer of unused, expired, uncollected, or otherwise wasted medicines. Read the HSE response.
From: Communications and public affairs
Published: May 2026
Updated: July 2026
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Question from Deputy Ken O’Flynn - PQ 38763-26
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Summary
To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department or the HSE has carried out any national assessment since 2020 of the annual cost to the Exchequer of unused, expired, uncollected, or otherwise wasted medicines under State-funded medicine schemes; and if she will publish any such assessment.
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