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

The medical device industry funding equipment, a unit or personnel would not be covered by this particular Bill unless the doctor is making personal gains from it. If he or she is working within the unit, there is no material benefit. However, if he or she is charging people to use that facility, that would be seen as a gift because there would be a gain to the health care professional in that circumstance. If a nurse is being funded by a pharmaceutical company and is in a hospital, there is no material gain to an individual clinician if he or she is working in the same unit and just doing his or her job. If there was a direct transfer to that clinician because that nurse was being paid by the pharmaceutical industry it would have to be seen as a gift or a transfer of value under this legislation. That would require more thorough scrutiny on Committee Stage.