Anne Rabbitte

Like as part of a programme for government, we have said early access programmes, please give us access to the early access on this drug.

Yes, absolutely.

And I would turn around that on its head and I would flip it on the top of a hairpin and say the cost of care for these people who continue to deteriorate, the cost of care if they have to go into residential care is far above that.

And Craig Cody, when he was with our parliamentary party, spoke about it.

He spoke about the lived experience.

He knows the cost of care for his wife who is suffering and who is dying.

who is in residential care in Bloomfield.

He knows the cost of care.

As a former minister, I know the cost of care.

And I know that the cost of care, absolutely, if we do an early intervention, an early access programme, we can prevent it getting to that stage, Clare.

And actually it'll outweigh it because people can live a more wholesome full life.

They can participate in the workforce.

And at the end of the day, we prevent people from accessing residential care.

So there's a whole campaign around wasted lives.

Like we've seen young people under 65 going into nursing homes.

We can prevent this by the access, the early access to this drug.

Absolutely.

But I go back again to innovation and science.

Science and innovation is moving all of the time.

So if it can pause or slow down the progression of that disease, over time, science will come along with another solution as well, Clare.