John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I wish to speak about the same matter. This day two weeks ago I raised the exact same issue with the Taoiseach. I hope he did not take it out of context, but I did say I hoped the Government was not hiding behind bureaucracy. The programme for Government commits to trying to get these drugs on a European-wide basis. On this side of the House we are finding it very difficult to understand how other European countries with which we are supposed to be working in an alliance have secured this drug for their citizens. There are 25 children in this country in need of it, two of them in my constituency, and the timing really matters. I hope there will be an effort to ensure a speedy response on the issue.

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