Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 March 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Medicines Strategy: Discussion

Dr. Ciara Conlan:

All the recommendations say that. It is going that way in Europe and everyone is talking about it, it is not only us. The UN had a higher level panel on access to medicines that recommended a global pooled research fund to which we would contribute and then have control over the products at the end. This is something we need to do to secure the medicines we need at the right price.