Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We also deal with orphan drugs quite a bit and orphan drugs, by definition, are for rare diseases. The system has no issue in dealing with the concept of rare diseases. With other diseases and infections, I have never heard the State say that as it is rare, the people who have it actually do not have it and the condition does not exist. Being rare is not cited in any other case so it is not the issue. There must be something specific about how this unfolds as the system is more than capable of dealing with rare diseases. I just do not understand it.