Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Evaluating Orphan Drugs: Discussion (Resumed)

9:00 am

Mr. John Hennessy:

I want to caution about going too far down the road, as we are doing on this particular case. I fully appreciate Senator Conway-Walsh's points. I too have met some of the families involved in this, and it is obviously a very serious issue for them. The decision has been taken and concluded on Translarna, and it is now the subject of legal proceedings, which is obviously something the company is absolutely entitled to do. Having said that, the door is never closed to new information and-or new applications, and the HSE is always happy to receive and consider new information. As for the application process and the decision taken, that has concluded and is going through another process in another forum. We have constraints as to how far we can go into that.

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