John Brassil (Kerry, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

They would tell us that the price available in Ireland is equivalent to their deal with Belgium and the Netherlands, so who do we believe? Transparency might be the key to all of this. If we could unlock transparency, we might make progress. As somebody with a limited amount of knowledge in the industry, will a scenario ever arise whereby world governments will unite on a multilateral basis and say they will invest a specific percentage of their health budgets in research and development, give it to the various companies to invest and have a payback model when the drug comes to fruition? Is that something that is achievable?