Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Government does not decide which medicines are reimbursed and which ones are not. There is a process in place to do that involving the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics and the HSE. The decisions are based on objective criteria. To date, there have been two applications for reimbursement. It was determined by the medical, clinical and economic experts that this particular medicine was not sufficiently effective at the cost proposed.

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