Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion

2:00 am

Professor Michael Barry:

You can always do better. We can always do better. We feel we can do better but, as I have said, we are responsible for 19% or 20% of the timelines. There are other areas that can do better as well. We can all do better, but from our point, we will certainly try to do better than the 220 days that it takes us, and I think we are getting there. As I was saying to Senator Rabbitte earlier on, we have done more assessments this year by September then we did in the entirety of last year. This is reflective of the support we have got, in fairness, from the Department and with all the members' support. We are very grateful for that and we will do it as quickly as we can.

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