Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion

2:00 am

Nicole Ryan (Sinn Fein)
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I will move on because we are all trying to be professional and there is no need for the arrogance.

My next question is for Ms McGrath. We have seen repeatedly that Government strategies have stated that access will be immproved. In her ideal world, what kind of accountability mechanisms would be needed to make it happen, instead of just having promises and saying again and again that we will do this? As we saw, the report was published eight years ago and we are still here having almost the same discussions.