Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach spoke about the cost effectiveness of drugs and cited the fact there is a procedure to establish the efficacy of any medicine and its economic value but I ask him to address the issue of that disparity between public and private cancer patients and whether he can justify the fact that a person, because his or her pockets are not as deep, will not receive the same care and, accordingly, his or her health and life are jeopardised.

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