Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 March 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. Martin Gallagher:

Regarding transparency of pricing, another rash of price reductions was sent to us at approximately 4.30 p.m. on Friday. Again, there were significant price reductions accompanied by a series of pan-European charts comparing prices across other EU member states and not across the nine countries that were originally covered by the agreement. We would like to see more precisely what they are comparing with when they arrive at a price for the Irish market. When we refer to transparency, we mean more information.