Pádraig O'Sullivan

I think about 15 years, Stephen Donnelly actually reintroduced money into this area.

But the reality is, like when you do have Michael Barry on here again, he'll tell you the overall drugs budget is in excess of 4 billion.

But the budget for new drugs, including rare diseases and all those new cancer drugs, is only 30 to 40 million per annum.

That represents less than 1% of the total all...

budget spend on drugs so I would ask not necessarily for new money I would be asking for a reapportionment of the existing drugs budget that we have because there's always savings in drugs stuff goes off patent you know and generics come available where savings can be achieved.