Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 March 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Medicines Strategy: Discussion

Dr. Ciara Conlan:

Yes. We have heard references to that. In 2010, Knowledge Ecology International did a study that showed pharmaceutical companies spent 7% of what they earned from global sales on research and development. I do not know where the remaining 93% went.