Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In 2010, Fine Gael Deputies rightly raised the issue of this drug therapy in the Dáil with the then Tánaiste and Minister, former Deputy Mary Harney. According to the letter from Dr. Philip Murphy, he said that initially the HSE agreed to fund ten patients with PNH but despite attempts by him to get the funding agreed in the past two to three years, he recently had correspondence from Shaun Flanagan, chief pharmacist of the HSE, to the effect that he is not in a position to fund eculizumab therapy for any more PNH patients at present. It is a funding issue.

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