Dr. Peadar O'Grady:

No, a doctor was supervising. They insisted on a consultant to do this and a consultant does not have a legal standing in Ireland. Only specialists have legal standing and GPs are specialists.

To be clear on the point, anyone that gets a doctor's recommendation could access a cannabis-based product. Anybody who does not get that could not access it. People who suffer from those conditions, as certified by their doctor, should all know that they will be able to access cannabis-based products when this Bill passes. If a person's doctor says that he or she thinks that person has a condition that would respond to cannabis and is going to recommend it, that person will have a way of accessing it. Doctors are saying that today. There is just nowhere to go to access the cannabis. This Bill would allow for that. The major obstacle to that is criminal law, not health law.