Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 July 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Evaluating Orphan Drugs: Discussion

9:00 am

Photo of Louise O'ReillyLouise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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To be very clear on this, as a layperson it strikes me that science is science and tests are tests, so I share Deputy Durkan's surprise there are not standards throughout the European Union by which these things can be assessed. When a purely scientific analysis is done on outcomes, a person is a person and it does not matter whether he or she is in Lithuania, Azerbaijan or Dublin.