Pádraig O'Sullivan

But every couple of months, every six months, you solve a drug or a drug gets reimbursed and people typically, politicians especially, campaign for a certain drug or a certain cohort of patients that might be constituents of theirs.

But we're not dealing with the crux of the matter here.

The crux of the matter is our process is broken.

Simon Harris himself, when he was Minister for Health in 2017, said the process isn't working.

But the process hasn't changed since 2017.

It's the same process.

And it's those inordinate delays that are unacceptable, they're inhumane, they're cruel.

And I got to know Craig because he did an interview on local radio.

He's not a constituent of mine, but I felt so moved by his initial interview, I reached out to him.

And from that, to be fair, the campaign has, you know, over the last few weeks, it's going viral.

And I've been saying that for five years.

We can resolve this situation for this cohort of patients.

I'm also working with Senator Theresa Costolo

on the Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients' desire to get Givinostat.

Like, we're going to have campaign after campaign and it's going to be Groundhog Day unless we get to the crux of the matter.

And the statistics I'm quoting are EU statistics.

They're not just industry statistics.

They come from the EU Commission as well.

Ireland ranks below Luxembourg, Denmark, Slovenia, Cyprus, Iceland, Norway, Estonia and Cyprus, sorry, in terms of wait times for processing of drugs.

They're similar sized economies, similar sized populations.