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

I am afraid I cannot intervene on such a matter. The decision to license a medicine is for the Health Products Regulatory Authority or the European Medicines Agency. The Oireachtas passed legislation to ensure that decisions on which medicines are reimbursed are not political decisions and should be made objectively by the HSE on the advice of the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics. About 30 new medicines this year have been approved for reimbursement. I am sure more will be approved, but they must meet the criteria and done within the law passed by this House.

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