Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion
2:00 am
Tom Clonan (Independent)
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Something struck me from what I heard, and I apologise again as I was at the disability matters committee meeting. I suppose it goes with the title “pharmacoeconomic review”, but Professor Barry talked about a cost–benefit analysis. Does he believe that is an ethical way to assess the funding, approval or otherwise of drugs?