704. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the extent to which patient information is made available to third party pharmaceutical companies or any other entity broken down by category of information; if he will instruct the health care pricing office to divulge precisely how much information has been provided by indicating, in tabular format, the entities to which information has been provided; the dates upon which information was provided in the past ten years; the number of patients whose information has been shared; if consent was sought in any case; if any sum was paid in exchange for said information; the stated reasons for which access to this information was sought; if he has contacted the Data Protection Commissioner to ascertain if this data transfer is consistent with data protection legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32636/14]

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704. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the extent to which patient information is made available to third party pharmaceutical companies or any other entity broken down by category of information; if he will instruct the health care pricing office to divulge precisely how much information has been provided by indicating, in tabular format, the entities to which information has been provided; the dates upon which information was provided in the past ten years; the number of patients whose information has been shared; if consent was sought in any case; if any sum was paid in exchange for said information; the stated reasons for which access to this information was sought; if he has contacted the Data Protection Commissioner to ascertain if this data transfer is consistent with data protection legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32636/14]

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