Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The most appropriate person to decide whether any patient in this country should access any form of medical product, authorised or other, is a clinician and any time a clinician has sought a licence for a product such as medicinal cannabis during my time as Minister for Health it has been granted, including in the most recent case.

In respect of the Deputy's Bill I understood from the debate I participated in here that he had undertaken to do a lot of work to make that Bill acceptable to a majority of this House which it is not now. I know the Deputy will liaise with the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health in that regard and that is where it should best proceed.

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