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SAOIRSE RONAN HAS entered the race for next year’s Oscars.
The Outrun, which will be released later this month, sees the Irish actress playing a young woman struggling to recover from addiction.
The film – and Ronan’s performance – have been highly praised by critics, and the role could be the one that finally sees her win the biggest award in Hollywood.
She has become one of the biggest film stars in the world, playing a variety of characters and accumulating four Oscar nominations before she turned 30.
But how well do you know her?
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Nice to see he is pro active can’t say that for many other ministers……
I hate to admit it but I agree
@Tony Skillington: Gotta agree. I can’t see what we, as a nation, can’t do this with all our drug and medical devices purchasing and use the combined purchasing power of all the countries involved. You can be certain, should this become effective, other countries would probably ask to join this group, which makes being a founder member all the more important.
Handling his brief admirably and then some!
Good call, Mr. Harris.
At least he is making an effort
Is it ethically right to spend 160k on one patient for medication??? That’s the question. I’d disagree and say it isn’t ethically right
Would you say that if it was your child?
I’d say you are wrong. Jillian who is mentioned in the story spent 9 or 10 months of the year in hospital before starting Orkambi. For the hospital bed alone this would have cost over €250,000. Add in medications and doctors, nurses costs and you are at probably €400,000. Since starting Orkambi 3 years ago she has been hospitalised for 10 weeks. So her hospital bill has reduced from approximately €1.2million in that time to €120000. Add 3 years of Orkambi at full cost of €457k makes a saving to the state of €633k. And she also gets to have a life.
This is the reality of the situation.
Would you rather they spend over 100k on a sick child or is it better to look after the bond holders or set up the quango Irish Water. If they are going to “squander money”, which they are good at, why not squander it on cf patients. I am all for it.. Fair play to Minister Harris by the way. He is trying. Hope he succeeds.
This lis leadership If we had more ministers with this kind of problem solving we would improve our country
Have a read of this story: http://www.irishtimes.com/business/commercial-property/cerberus-paid-1-900-tax-on-77m-project-eagle-profits-1.2885720 We can’t afford this lifesaving drug but those slimey b*xtards in government allow these vulture funds to pay zero tax on their million of profit. I’ve said it before on here, this country would really make you sick at times yet the sheep still vote the traitors in!
@PaulJ: Saw that earlier Paul. You just know which trough the government snouts are in……..
Are you saying we should buy these drugs at ANY cost? Cop on
The drugs companies must love this. They just name the price knowing that if the government refuses to accept it, the people will turn on the government. Every euro we overpay is money gone from the health budget, money that could be used elsewhere. Business requires negotiation and this is a great move by Harris. The more pressure put on the drugs companies the better the savings will be. Saying that the government is depriving CF patients is just the usual populist rhetoric
Free water though……
surely the cost of the drug would be cheaper than the cost of cf sufferers spending half their life in hospitals.
I heard of someone dying on Sunday past where paramedics took quite a while before arriving. They had a huge area to cover so not their fault….cutbacks they said.
I also see deductions in my payslip rising all the time and am told I’ll have to work for extra years because the Country can’t afford pensions (this is obviously less serious than the paramedic issue but valid I think).
The CF medication is expensive. Can we afford it?
Am I alone in thinking that if we didn’t throw so much money at the people who WON’T work we could have a much better Country.
Decent people are suffering because no one has the balls to deal with the real issues.
I don’t see it changing soon.
“Speaking today, Harris said: “Our country has a great track record of making new and innovative treatment available to patients. I am determined that this continues.” Really Simon?
Yes the new and innovative treatments are now available on hospital trolleys in the corridor.
Selfie while driving that’s clever
If they can give a bonus to the long term scroungers at 220 million..at the tax payers cost. .I’d rather it go to the CF people. .
He should email instead of write
Legalize cannibis ringfence the tax take for the health budget…..then the gardai may be able to tackle the heroin scurge everyone wins except the publicians and and that has to be a good thing
Vertex should be ashamed of themselves . Hate big pharma companies . What an obscene price to charge per patient . Can nothing be done to stop such greed.
Is that not passing the buck??? Grow a pair and you Mr Harris make the decision to make life easier for people with cf! There are 500 approximately with Cf, How many junkies are there and how much is spent on methadone????
To all…..check out jonathon sugerman on u tube be prepaired to be shocked to the cor…..he was a banker here at the start of the crash………he has the goods on ……Bruton, noonan , burton. And dragi
When ‘saving’ money is more important than saving lives…….we are in a bad way as a Society.
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