Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

My understanding is that there is a difficulty in getting indemnity cover. When this started back in 2017, I was on the then Joint Committee on Health and this issue came up. My understanding was that the HSE agreed that whatever cover was needed would be provided to the clinicians who were prescribing but I am not sure if that indemnity cover is available to people who are not employees of the HSE. It might be worth looking at that.

When I talk about geographic cover I am talking about medical personnel who are prescribing. It is that geographic spread that I am more concerned about. Are the people prescribing only based in Dublin or are there consultants outside of Dublin who are prepared to prescribe?