218. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health whether she has been made aware of the current shortage in Ireland of a number of pain relief medications (details supplied); if she can outline the role the Health Products Regulatory Authority can play in ensuring alternative supplies are made available to hospices and community pharmacies caring for these patients, whether this be by expediting the batches currently being held up by regulatory issues, or by ensuring that parallel or exempt medicinal products from other EU countries or from Britain can be imported; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38178/25]

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218. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Health whether she has been made aware of the current shortage in Ireland of a number of pain relief medications (details supplied); if she can outline the role the Health Products Regulatory Authority can play in ensuring alternative supplies are made available to hospices and community pharmacies caring for these patients, whether this be by expediting the batches currently being held up by regulatory issues, or by ensuring that parallel or exempt medicinal products from other EU countries or from Britain can be imported; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38178/25]

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