Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Department obviously based that €400 million figure on something. It looked at innovation and new medicines that were available. This has nothing to do with savings that could be made. The Department projected that it would need €400 million to be able to keep up with innovation, the supply new medicines and so on but it got a quarter of what it asked for and thought was necessary.