Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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336. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the progress towards achieving the Programme for Government commitment to establish a new national medicines agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12216/22]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The Programme for Government includes a commitment to establish a National Medicines Agency.

The establishment of a National Medicines Agency would require a significant body of work to be undertaken, to map out an integrated pharmaceutical policy function for the Agency and to consider the resources necessary for its establishment.

That work has yet to commence and must be considered in the context of the Department of Health’s existing 2022 priorities.