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Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: Tá ceist agam. Why will the Minister not put the horse before the cart rather than the other way around? Why will she not allow Mr. Dorgan to report first? Why is she ignoring the recommendations of the Indecon report commissioned by the HSE, which stated clearly that there should be no precipitate action, that the Irish market could not be compared with other markets in Europe and that...

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: With respect, these are not the questions I asked.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: I did not. I said they could not guarantee they would not.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: Can I point out——

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: Those letters were from manufacturers, not wholesalers.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: They are manufacturers, not wholesalers.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: The Minister has not answered my question.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: Nobody said it was agreed.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: Presumption is the mother of all catastrophe.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: Why punish the pharmacists? The Minister is punishing the pharmacists instead of the wholesalers.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: The Minister wants them on their knees first.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: The Minister should deal with the wholesalers, not bully the pharmacists.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: Not relative to the size of the population.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: That is just disingenuity on the part of the Minister.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: Costs have gone up too.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: That is the same prosperity that does not allow a nurse or a garda to buy a house.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: Neither is there justification for bullying the pharmacists when it is the wholesalers the Minister should be targeting.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: How much of it will go to paying the managers in the HSE?

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: This morning's statements, apart from highlighting the situation, appear to be somewhat meaningless and we have had a vote on the Order of Business already. What should be before the House is a motion calling on the IPU and the HSE to stand back from any precipitative action that would endanger continuity of supply of medicines to the most vulnerable in our society, that is, the elderly, the...

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: I imagine quite a number of rural pharmacists will go down.