Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is a voluntary code among pharmaceutical companies to declare, but the individual in receipt of the gift can decline to publish his or her name. If a doctor does not want his or her name to be publicised, he or she can decline. There is no statutory obligation. That is a difficulty. A pharmaceutical company could be taking many clinicians abroad. Some people would allow their name to be publicly declared and others would not. In that instance there would be no transparency.