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Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: The patients are not getting ——

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: —— a good deal out of that and neither is the taxpayer. That is my concern. Deputy Moloney asked how the three members were selected. They were selected by me following a conversation I had with the Secretary General of the Department and one of my advisers. They are people I know professionally and for whom I have a high regard. They know what it takes to make business function...

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: There is no doubt that Mr. Seán Dorgan and Mr. Mark Moran are well aware of what it takes to keep a business functioning. What I and the Government want to see is a vibrant ——

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: —— community pharmacy sector. I do not have any data on the age profile. I met a young woman in Dublin recently, who was probably in her early 30s, who told me she had 14 pharmacies. A young, Irish woman who is a pharmacist, working in this city ——

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: I am simply telling Deputies.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: I am just telling Deputies. She is one of the young people to whom they referred.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: We have more medical cards in the country now than ever before.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: I wish to point out to Deputy Durkan that incomes have gone up threefold and medical cards are at their highest level. More than 30%——

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: I accept that but the fact is that, notwithstanding our new prosperity, there are more people in Ireland with medical cards than ever before.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: There is no justification for paying twice the rate that is paid across the European Union, no matter how much countries change, to deliver medicine, much of which is made in Ireland. We have one of the most successful pharmaceutical sectors in the world. There is no justification for paying twice as much as is paid in Northern Ireland or anywhere else, to deliver medicine to patients....

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: Deputy Reilly made the case earlier about money for cystic fibrosis, among other concerns. The purpose here is to divert the money that would otherwise go to pay for the distribution of medicine ——

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: ——to other worthy causes in the health services and everybody should support that.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: How many does the Deputy think will have gone out of business?

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: That is why we need savings.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: Rubbish.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: Where did the Deputy see the letter?

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: It has not been published. He is a pharmacist, which the Deputy should remember.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: I have seen the letter. He is a pharmacist.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: He said the same in 2002, by the way.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: Rubbish. The Deputy knows the reason for that. It is the intimidation of staff.