Responses to parliamentary questions
Question from Deputy Ken O'Flynn - PQ 8892-26
Deputy O'Flynn asked about the introduction if a temporary national reimbursement protocol for the duration of the salbutamol nebule shortages.
From: Communications and public affairs
Published: February 2026
Updated: February 2026
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Question from Deputy Ken O'Flynn - PQ 8892-26
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Summary
To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department will direct the HSE and PCRS to implement a temporary national reimbursement protocol, for the duration of the current salbutamol nebule shortages, in order that clinically equivalent substitutes are reimbursed without individual case by case applications under discretionary hardship arrangements; and if so, when this protocol will commence.
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