Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
National Medicines Strategy: Discussion
Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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It is hard to define exactly what the investment is because if the laboratory has been built and staffed and a company sponsors a bursary of €30,000 or €40,000 that investment is on paper but the State has invested in the bricks and mortar, the personnel, the person who comes to clean the place, and the lights. It is difficult to do but it is not impossible and it is not impossible that future investment should be linked to some sort of return and public health gain. That is not an outrageous to ask for. Does Dr. Harkin think that is outrageous?