Cannabis for Medicinal Use
Dail Éireann — 2022-07-12
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Gino Kenny (PBP), Dublin Mid-West

I think the Minister will agree with me the policy of a ministerial licence was from the outset overly bureaucratic and very arduous for parents. Many parents had to fight tooth and nail to get access for their children. I have always found it strange that with the more than 40 people who have ministerial licence, there is no joined-up thinking. There is no research done or joined-up thinking. The access programme gives that kind of joined-up thinking. Twenty people is a very small number to be benefiting from medical cannabis. If we look at the Danish medical cannabis programme, which I will allude to in the next part, it has been broadened out with more conditions. The clinical review is very important.

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Sitting date: 2022-07-12