Violet-Anne Wynne (Clare, Sinn Fein)
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465. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a pharmaceutical trial at the Rotunda Hospital involving a drug called dilipan-S that is being contested as unethical by birth activists (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25482/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Before conducting a clinical trial of an unauthorised medicine in Ireland, the trial sponsor is required to secure regulatory approval from the Health Products Regulatory Authority, as well as ethical approval from a recognised ethics committee. I am not familiar with the particular trial in question; however, I have asked officials in my Department to write to the hospital concerned to seek clarification and follow up directly with the Deputy.