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:

It could be reimbursed. I have not made any application to change it, but it could be done. The interesting thing in relation to drugs for rare diseases is that even if we took the figure Professor Postma spoke about – €80,000 per QALY – it would not make a huge difference because most are above that anyway. Does the Deputy know what I mean?