Cost of drugs - Stop looking abroad to set prices

THE National Consumer Agency has been complaining about the high cost of prescription medicine in this country. Ireland is the fourth most expensive country for prescription medicine in the eurozone.

Thu, 11 May, 2006 - 01:00

Editorial

Irish people are paying up to treble what people are paying for the same medicines in Spain.

One brand of anti-depressant drug that cost €87.74 in Ireland costs €26.73 — less than a third — for the same dose in Spain.

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