Carmody to pay Medicines Board €500 a month
He was unable to pay the order for €10,000 “in one installation”, Tralee District Court heard yesterday.
The payment of €10,000 was ordered in 2005 and Mr Carmody’s solicitor was asking the Medicines Board to accept payment of €1,000 within seven days and €500 a month afterwards.
Mr Carmody, of Ballycuggeran, Killaloe, Co Clare, was in 2005 found guilty of breaching Irish Medicines Board legislation. He had denied the charges.
He was ordered to payexpenses and costs incurred by the board in its investigation. Sentencing was adjourned in relation to two alleged offences of the wholesaling of St John’s Wort without a licence from the Irish Medicines Board at Bawnboy, Tralee, in Jan and Nov 2004.
Yesterday, after the matter was adjourned for over an hour, Ed O’Sullivan, for the State, said there had been “discussion” between the parties about the payment of €10,000 ordered in 2005.
“Mr David Ramsay, solicitor for Mr Carmody, says it is not possible to have the money paid by the defendant in one installation,” said Mr O’Sullivan.
Judge James O’Connor agreed to make an order that the sum of €500 be paid on the last banking day of each month directly to Eugene F Collins & Co, Dublin, solicitors for the board.
An initial payment of €1,000 is to be paid by Oct 30. He adjourned the case to Dec 11. The second matter from the 2005 trial, in relation to the adjourned sentence, was also adjourned to Dec 11.
