Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 April 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011

12:10 pm

Mr. Tony O'Brien:

The Deputy is referring to recent media reports which seek to make a calculation based on below-the-line offers that may go on between distributors or manufacturers and individual pharmacists, sometimes referred to as two-for-one and three-for-one offers. We reimburse based on list price and would not have visibility of these types of two-for-one or three-for-one offers that periodically - or perhaps even more often than periodically - are in play between distributors and prescribers. Certainly we do not play in that space. We do not see the benefit of that.

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