Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 8 November 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Evaluating Orphan Drugs: Discussion (Resumed)
9:00 am
Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Okay, that is fair enough. So really the EMA is the body that would carry more weight because obviously that is within Europe and we are all part of Europe. I just want to get at conditional approval. Is it not true to say that most orphan drugs that go through the EMA get conditional approval rather than full approval merely because they are new drugs that are being introduced and then the data that is used-----
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