Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

In some cases the process is not that complicated, but in others it can be more complicated. I would appreciate it if the Minister identified the drugs in question. We are overpaying for drugs, as the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform accepts. It is quite obvious that we are overpaying for them and we cannot go through this again. The process used to make drugs available which involves reimbursements and making decisions led to an embarrassing situation between the Department of Health and the HSE. What happened in the case of the national clinical care programme cannot be allowed to happen again. What process will the Minister put in place to ensure the reimbursement process for drugs will work properly in the future? I will work with him on any such process.

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