Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
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It reaches a tipping point then and the public service is always inadequate.

I want to go back for a minute to that question of the prescribing of injectable cholesterol-lowering treatments. What is the position? Presumably, we know high cholesterol is very prevalent. What happens if a person is being prescribed that treatment? Does that mean they can eat and drink whatever they like? How does that actually work? Is it only in very serious cases where people are at serious risk that this medicine would be prescribed?