Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

If the patient is being prescribed this medicine on the basis that the consultant believes it is the best treatment, in the normal way, there would be no requirement for the patient to try every medicine before a consultant chooses a particular medicine for him or her. I presume that the consultant will look at the particular requirements and make a clinical decision based on his or her expertise. I am wondering about the requirement that the patient must have exhausted all other available options.