Ireland in official bid to host EMA

Ireland is the latest country to put its name forward to host the European Medicines Agency (EMA), should it be relocated following the UK’s Brexit vote.

Spain, Sweden, Denmark and Italy are among the other countries to have expressed interest in hosting the Agency, and the Irish Health Minister Simon Harris confirmed that his government would be bidding to attract the EMA to Dublin on Thursday.

Mr Harris argued that a move across the Irish Sea would keep disruption to a minimum, and said that the excellent track record of the country’s Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) and the part already played by many of its members on EMA committees, further strengthened his country’s case.