949. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will investigate the outcome of the Trinity College Dublin researchers' findings in which savings of more than 50% can be made on the five most common medicines by prescribing similar but cheaper versions of the drugs and where their findings also state that the ten most prescribed medicines were on average 2.7 times more expensive here than in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57821/12]

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949. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will investigate the outcome of the Trinity College Dublin researchers' findings in which savings of more than 50% can be made on the five most common medicines by prescribing similar but cheaper versions of the drugs and where their findings also state that the ten most prescribed medicines were on average 2.7 times more expensive here than in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57821/12]

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