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

A process exists by which new drugs are approved in Ireland. It is a process that was set out in an Act of the Oireachtas. It does not involve a Government or ministerial decision, but rather an analysis by the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics and a final decision by the HSE national drugs committee. I will certainly let the Minister for Health know that Deputy Michael Healy-Rae has raised the matter again and will relay his concerns on the matter.

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