Alison O'Connor

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355 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 30 Aug

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Brendan O'Connor · The Newspaper Panel · 30 Aug 2026 podcast

dramatically.

Yeah, I mean, first off, I can entirely understand if I or a family member had Friedrich's Ataxia, you would be doing exactly what those families did.

But I think when you see so many of our politicians who are in government acting against the HSE, now I know we could come up with a million stories about waste money in the HSE, but this is somewhere where the system seems to work differently.

Well, or that there's a particular path.

And Liz mentioned the incredible numbers involved.

I mean, when do you ever hear about seven hundred and eighty eight million, for instance, being being saved?

And yes, you had like almost an overwhelming majority of the Fianna Fáil party coming out and putting pressure on the agency.

Give them what they want.

Yeah.

And there's some talk that this is actually part of their being and of them being anti Micheál Martin and trying to pile more pressure on him.

So I have an idea, right?

I think that Michael Barry, who's the professor, who's the head of the pharma economics unit

looks at these drugs, who's a man who has a tough job, but I think communicates pretty well on it, that he and Seamus Coffey of IFAC should do some sort of a roadshow.

They should get together, right?

And maybe go around the country speaking directly to voters, you know, about saving money and why having a mature conversation about why we shouldn't be spending it in this manner.

I mean, to go like you, the drug company, in fairness to them, this is what they call an orphan drug.

There's not that many people suffer from this.

It's not like developing a cancer drug, for instance.

So they deserve, as you said, to try to try and make their money.

But to be acting with the other hand, to be in essence nearly acting against the state.

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