Alex White (Dublin South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The purpose of the amendment is not to lengthen the period. I agree with Senator MacSharry on the importance of expediting the applications, which should be done anyway. I agree very much with his emphasis in that respect. It would be wrong to imagine that it would take a period of multiple years to achieve the aims we are setting out. It is not appropriate to aggregate the periods in that way, saying we would do only one set of drugs at a time before taking the next batch.