Seanad debates

Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Access to Cancer Treatment Bill 2012: Second Stage

 

We have seen the Ipilimumab, or Ipi, scenario and other scenarios, where the only recourse for vulnerable cancer patients was to resort, as I said in my press statement, to the Joe Duffy approach to obtaining cancer treatments which would prolong their lives or perhaps lead towards cure. This is an unacceptable scenario and one that is not becoming of any Government interested in representative politics and in putting the patient first.

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