Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 September 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Medicines and Medical Products: Discussion with Irish Medicines Board

5:50 pm

Mr. Pat O'Mahony:

The discussion in regard to the use of social media is very interesting. Those of us of a certain age are perhaps not as adept as younger people at using them. However, across medicine regulators generally this matter has now been discussed at a number of high level meetings. Mr. Nigel Fox is our communications person and we have begun to look at our social media offering. As part of the launch of our new name, in the first or second quarter of next year when we will have a new website, we are looking at what engagement we might have with social media. This is something at which we need to look and I welcome the Chairman's comments on it.