Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Is there anything the Government could do to ensure the clinical trial process is more transparent? Of all the clinical trial results that are produced here, do we know how many are publicly funded? Are they all publicly funded? Are they all published? I am conscious that there is an effective subsidy in place, in some instances, for these clinical trials. That does not necessarily extend to sharing all the information.

Is there anything we can do by way of recommendation, either as a committee or as legislators, that would improve transparency, particularly with regard to clinical trials? I would like to get a handle on how many are done here, how many of these are publicly funded and what happens to the results.