Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 November 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Evaluating Orphan Drugs: Discussion (Resumed)

9:00 am

Dr. Derick Mitchell:

With regard to transparency, we have been wondering why information is not more readily available. We are told there is legislation that must be abided by on the release of information. We have looked at Ireland and other jurisdictions in terms of the information that gets redacted. More redaction seems to happen in Ireland than in other jurisdictions. We are curious as to why this is the case. There seems to be more black marker used in Ireland than other jurisdictions with regard to commercial confidentiality and the public arena. We are curious as to why this is.

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