{"id":188002,"date":"2025-12-12T13:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/188002\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T13:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:43:07","slug":"mayo-td-hits-out-at-blister-pack-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/188002\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayo TD hits out at blister pack fees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Mayo TD has hit out at plans to introduce a new 50 euro fee for pill blister packs.<\/p>\n<p>Elderly and vulnerable patients suffering from illnesses such as dementia are facing new monthly fees of yp to 50 euro for drugs in blister packs.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Jennifer Carroll-MacNeill has told the Dail that the Government will not intervene in the introduction of new fees for blister packs at pharmacies, set to come in on January 1st.<\/p>\n<p>Sinn Fein\u2019s Rose Conway-Walsh says this is a really bad move by the Government.<\/p>\n<p>She has been giving more details to Midwest Radio\u2019s Michael D McAndrew\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/RCWBLISTER.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/RCWBLISTER.wav<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 A Mayo TD has hit out at plans to introduce a new 50 euro fee for pill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[103,61,60,371],"class_list":["post-188002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}