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

I want to spend 80% of my time here in Parliament, in my Department and with the HSE, and maybe 20% in my constituency and elsewhere. I think that is probably the right balance, but it means that I cannot get around as much as I would like.

On the Fampyra medicine, I do not know that one in detail. The National Institute of Clinical Excellence, which did a paper on it in the United Kingdom, was quite critical of it. For any medicine, a comparison is made between the medicine itself and non-use or placebo use. That study found that the medicine only worked well in a small minority of patients and therefore was not cost effective.