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 reality is we would not have access to the information to enable us to play in that space. These things are done confidentially between retailers and distributors and are against the published list price which is different. So we are not really in a position to deal in that space. Again the approach to reference pricing will have a significant impact in that area. The extent to which this goes on is governed to a large extent by market conditions and market conditions here at present facilitate that type of practice. A reference-pricing environment will make it much harder for people to play those games.

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