Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Can you give us a sense as to what the reluctance of GPs is in this regard? A lot of this comes down to appetite suppressants that are needed, so there is a medical response to it as well. The professor we met in Derry said they were looking down the road at a particular hormone that might potentially trigger appetite and so on. There is a lot of very positive work going on, but he was at a loss as to what the reluctance of many GPs across the system was to using medication that clearly works in the majority of cases. There may be side-effects for some people and so on but there seems to be a reluctance to prescribe these medications. Many of them are not new.

Maybe you cannot answer. For a layperson it seems rather strange that that is not one of the options that have been taken up more often in relation to it.