Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The authors of the Bill have made it clear from the outset that we understand the rescheduling of cannabis would have to happen. Any suggestion we simply want to decriminalise cannabis is not true. We have made it absolutely clear to the Department, and anybody with whom we have discussed it, that we did not feel qualified to make a decision about precisely how to reschedule it, but we have stated clearly the rescheduling should be debated on Committee Stage. I want to make this clear. The Bill states that doctors, and only doctors, should be able to prescribe it. I want this clarified.