Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

What steps are being taken, if any, to increase the level of support that might be available by way of new age drugs and so on? Testing drugs at European level and at our own level as well is a slow process. We tend very often to test drugs all over again with resultant delays. Why that exists, I do not know. What can and should be done now in the short term to, as it were, help concentrate the minds of the people who are doing the testing with a view to bringing results to the table at an earlier stage?