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

I have sat down with the Minister, Deputy Harris, about this issue. As the Deputy can imagine, he is very aware of it. We have had contact with the manufacturer about it in the past couple of months. It will be a difficult one to resolve but the ideas the Deputy put forward, either the Government funding a clinical trial or a cost-sharing or risk-sharing arrangement with the company, could provide a solution. However, we would need to have the company, and the clinicians, on board to do that. That is something we will pursue in the next couple of weeks.

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