Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 October 2015

Public Accounts Committee

Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines

10:00 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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What about suppliers who are not part of the IPHA? Many of us were lobbied during the year about treatment for particular people, for example, blood treatment and people having to have many of blood transfusions. While we are having this negotiation with the IPHA, how many other pharmaceutical drug suppliers are supplying the HSE on a company-by-company basis that is not covered by this agreement?