Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 September 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion

Mr. Shaun Flanagan:

On reimbursement, the MCAP has not started yet because there has not been a product. The MCAP is due to start in the next few weeks. We expect reimbursement will be reasonably seamless under the MCAP because we have an approved product and an application system will be in place. Therefore, on the MCAP, that is probably going to be okay. I have no idea of the volume, scale or the numbers, but we have sufficient staff to be able to deal with large volumes or small volumes, whichever it is, and we will flex our staffing as needed from other teams.

Obviously, the licences are somewhat different in that they come in one by one, and they come from the Department. While that is not quite as seamless a process because it is an individual single approval for those products, we are doing our best to be as responsive as we can on those and the various arrangements have been put in place, including direct payment mechanisms.

Excuse me, is there an IT problem?

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