Dr. Colin Doherty:

The HSE has a process on long-term illness drugs and if it is like anything else in the HSE, I presume it will take time. I am conscious of the Deputy's question. We could go hell-for-leather to come up with this framework and finally reach a decision to definitely prescribe it for particular patients, and suddenly find the drug is not affordable because it is going to take a year to get through the approval process for the LTI scheme. I just want to ensure we are all conscious of that.