Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 March 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Medicines Strategy: Discussion

Dr. Ciara Conlan:

All FDA-approved drugs between 2010 and 2016, which is approximately 200 drugs, had some component of public funding. It is a huge problem and we like to speak about it because there is currently no transparency of how much of each individual drug was publicly funded. Biogen, which makes Spinraza-----