Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There probably are lessons to be learned. The Deputy may be aware of a recently published report that was commissioned by the Department of Health on a reimbursement system and how it might be improved. Fundamentally, though, there is a real difficulty when a single company develops a new product and new medicine, and it is the only product. That company develops and manufactures it and very often holds the cards. Some people take the view, and the Deputy may take this view, that the Government should just copy it and produce the medicines itself.

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