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

And then you have this issue of we should get very early access.

As Michael Barry has pointed out, that if you go for early access,

you're actually maybe taking very early a drug that you don't have proper results for.

That just looking at this year alone, he said in the past, for rare diseases, none of the drugs improved overall survival and the quality of life improvement was only 18%.

And then when you consider cancer drugs, the figures are less than 50%.

Now, again, if you have a disease and you think there's any chance at all that these are the numbers are incredible.

There are going to be more and

of these drugs and

You would

You would bank.

I mean, Jennifer Kyle McNeil, the health minister, heard it during the week.

She seemed to be saying, look, we have to have maybe an annualized figure or some sort of an agreement.

Whether that ever comes to pass, I don't know.

But this is a debate we're going to be having more and more.

And the politicians really start to need being more honest.

Yeah, and how she, that she was in communication with Tusla, who were telling her to stay, this is in the mail on Sunday today, to keep him at home.

And he was saying, well, he's much bigger than me.

How am I supposed to physically even keep him at home?

involved with Tusla.

So in Alia Bakken's piece in the Sunday Independent today, Catherine Ardagh, who is the junior minister, she's drafting a youth diversion strategy that we're going to see next year, apparently.

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