Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. I refer to an issue I raised before the summer regarding Tagrisso, a drug for lung cancer treatment, about which I have been engaging with the HSE over the last number of months. The HSE indicated to us after a meeting on 9 July that it would try to fund it at the latter end of this year. The HSE has now confirmed that there is no money there for it. This is a drug that would make great difference to people who have lung cancer and it is urgently needed. We are now told it is going to have to wait until 2020, like everything else in the HSE. There is going to be some magic formula in 2020. I ask the Minister to ask his colleague, the Minister for Health, to intervene urgently because I believe it is a very small number of patients who urgently need this drug treatment in 2019.

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