{"id":448225,"date":"2026-05-14T09:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/448225\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:44:10","slug":"optometrists-to-sue-state-for-e100m-over-rates-paid-for-free-eye-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/448225\/","title":{"rendered":"Optometrists to sue State for \u20ac100m over rates paid for \u2018free eye tests\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Eye doctors will apply for judicial review and try to quash legislation<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Optometrists say payments fall significantly below the cost of providing services. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/28d5d04c-84c4-4292-9d9e-322c2af2b629.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Optometrists say payments fall significantly below the cost of providing services. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Department of Social Protection is being targeted with what could be a more than \u20ac100m damages claim by independent optometrists, who are challenging the amount the Government pays them for performing eye-tests under the Treatment Benefit Scheme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Association of Optometrists Ireland, trading as Optometry Ireland, is also hoping to quash the law that now governs the scheme by way of a judicial review. It\u2019s being represented in its action by Dublin-based Fenecas Law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eye doctors will apply for judicial review and try to quash legislation Optometrists say payments fall significantly below&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,14313,61,60,10099],"class_list":["post-448225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-department-of-social-protection","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-john-mulligan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448225","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=448225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}