876. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if she will consider making the drug Omaveloxolone available to the approximately 200 people in Ireland currently living with Friedreich's Ataxia, given the life-changing impact this drug can have; if she will reconsider her position that the drug is not ‘economically viable’, in light of the relatively small number of people whose lives can be changed by making this drug available to them; if she will consider their quality of life above the cost of the drug; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16678/26]

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876. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if she will consider making the drug Omaveloxolone available to the approximately 200 people in Ireland currently living with Friedreich's Ataxia, given the life-changing impact this drug can have; if she will reconsider her position that the drug is not ‘economically viable’, in light of the relatively small number of people whose lives can be changed by making this drug available to them; if she will consider their quality of life above the cost of the drug; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16678/26]

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