Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 July 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Evaluating Orphan Drugs: Discussion

9:00 am

Mr. Shaun Flanagan:

This featured a lot in the media in the Orkambi discussion, that the HSE did not consider the net cost of hospitalisation. We did. We were fully aware of all of these factors and we still needed hundreds of millions of euro.