Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion
2:00 am
Colm Burke (Cork North-Central, Fine Gael)
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On assessments, there is the whole issue of, for argument's sake, a medication that is only suitable for 50 people a year. Can we join with other countries in sharing and processing the information so that rather than Ireland looking at ten cases with 50 patients in each case, we would share information with other countries? Ireland would take two of those and another country would take another two, so we are not replicating what has been done. Where are we with that?