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 will first respond to the questions posed by Deputy Brassil. I would like to discuss what he has said because the figures he has quoted do not easily reconcile with me. The number of products that have been declined or refused here is very small and I am only aware of a handful. If he is suggesting that there are 148 products but only 53 are reimbursed here then that either means that an awful lot of them are still in process or they have been refused. Clearly they have not been refused.

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