Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
National Medicines Strategy: Discussion
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I acknowledge that Dr. Harkin was able to refer to one public private partnership but it sounds as though the private sector will do the vast majority of the work in this regard. If the IP is removed, which would remove the ability of companies for a time-limited period to charge a healthy margin, is there another model, given that the companies will still need to follow the money? Is there another model whereby they can still make a profit? Otherwise they will just not do the work.