Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Right, and it is helpful if the Department is putting it together. Consequently, the involvement of the Department and the aforementioned office should yield a benefit, ultimately, but it probably is leading to a delay in the commencement and the negotiations while it is engaged in this task that had not been done in this manner previously.

I revert to the extract I read out from the report. I seek information about these legal disputes the HSE has had with a number of these drug-importing companies in respect of the last agreement, from which it did not get the savings it expected. Who can respond to me about that question? Is this a relevant issue? There is no point in having an agreement and thinking one will make savings only to read this paragraph at the end of the agreement's term stating that there is a legal dispute and the savings were never achieved.