Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 November 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Evaluating Orphan Drugs: Discussion (Resumed)

9:00 am

Mr. Finian Judge:

No, we are working on a tender to go externally for that review.

Senator Colm Burke asked about working with other countries. As I said earlier, we are in the infancy of working with our new colleagues on the BeNeLuxA arrangement. We only signed the arrangement in June and, to date, our focus has been around sharing information. However, as time progresses, we will certainly work with them on the other domains, which are HTA, horizon scanning and ultimately joint assessments. Some of my colleagues are in Vienna today with their BeNeLuxA colleagues to try and progress that work. We will work with other countries to see what we can do better together. As I said, we are all struggling with the same issues of affordability and sustainability. It is a universal problem.

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