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:
The basis for that was the clinical data. It was appreciated that the clinical efficacy of these drugs was far greater in the younger patients. The younger the patients were, the better they did. That was the basis of the decision. Whether it is right or wrong is another day's work, but that was the basis of it. It was based on the clinical data.