Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The issue is very much of concern for the 35 children involved and their families. I am engaging with the Department and the HSE on this. As the Deputy will be aware, the HSE has statutory responsibility for decisions on pricing and reimbursement on medicines under the community drug scheme and for administration of this scheme. Reimbursement is for the licensed indications which have been granted market authorisation. What is important to me and, no doubt, to the Deputy is that the children get access to the drug they need. Intensive work is going on between the Department, the HSE and the companies involved to that end.

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