Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 5 July 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
9:00 am
Ms Mairéad Dolan:
That is a general title for the entire section. For the pharmaceutical services, the rebate is from the pharmaceutical manufacturers and then there is a further €5 million below in our corporate area. There is a combination of an improved agreement with the IPHA and additional drugs coming on stream. In 2016, the new contract with improved terms came in halfway through the year so there would be the impact of increased IPHA rebates in 2017 as well.
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