Question from Deputy Claire Kerrane - PQ 52886-26

To ask the Minister for Health the reason a drug (Tucatinib (Tukysa)) is not accessible in Ireland to cancer patients despite approval by the European Medicines Agency and it’s accessibility in many other parts of the EU and in the North of Ireland, if he will examine this and make the drug available for cancer patients where their oncology team has recommended it; and if she will make a statement on the matter.