Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 10 December 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals

5:45 pm

Photo of Colm BurkeColm Burke (Fine Gael)
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Unannounced scrutiny has been set up, but where does that leave us in terms of imported products? I refer to products coming in from outside the European Union, for which we will not have the same powers of inspection. How will we control that area? If there is a lower level of scrutiny in non-European jurisdictions, does that cause problems from an industrial point of view for medical device companies in this country? How is the issue being addressed?