Responses to parliamentary questions
Question from Deputy Ken O'Flynn - PQ 15812-26
Deputy O'Flynn asked about the health technology assessments conducted in respect of tirzepatide. Read the HSE response.
From: Communications and public affairs
Published: February 2026
Updated: March 2026
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Question from Deputy Ken O'Flynn - PQ 15812-26
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Summary
To ask the Minister for Health whether the health technology assessments conducted in respect of tirzepatide included modelling of downstream healthcare cost offsets arising from reductions in incidence of type 2 diabetes; cardiovascular events; hospital admissions; and obesity-related complications; and to provide the percentage reductions assumed in each case within the base-case analysis.
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