Jan McLucas (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Ageing, Disabilities and Carers) Share this | Hansard source

I want to go to the membership of the access to medicines working group. On what basis was the Generic Medicines Industry Association not included? Was consideration given to including the generics industry, given that they are not members of Medicines Australia? On what basis was the decision made not to include the generics industry and who made that decision? What will be the procedure that the department and therefore the government will adopt to formally consult with the generics industry? You will probably tell me that you have their phone numbers and you will ring them up, but the access to medicines working group is a formalised committee. Generics are not represented on it. The committee talked about this last Friday. I think it has to be a bit more substantive than to say that we have an ongoing commitment to consult.