Pat Upton
Question:234 Dr. Upton asked the Minister for Health the savings to his Department which would result from the replacement of branded drugs by generic drugs.
Vol. 429 No. 3
234 Dr. Upton asked the Minister for Health the savings to his Department which would result from the replacement of branded drugs by generic drugs.
235 Dr. Upton asked the Minister for Health the expenditure by his Department on branded drugs and generic drugs for the most recent year for which information is available.
I propose to take Questions Nos. 234 and 235 together.
The State incurs expenditure on drugs through allocations to hospitals, expenditure on the community drug schemes and the provision of drugs on the general medical services scheme. The varied nature of this expenditure means that detailed information down to individual drug level is not available in respect of all areas of the State's activity.