Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The system is overly bureaucratic and compassion gets lost in bureaucracy. I acknowledge that there is an appeals mechanism and that appeals are dealt with on a case-by-case basis, but surely this is putting people through unnecessary suffering and bureaucracy. One in eight people suffer from chronic pain and a huge volume of opiates would be required to treat those patients. Versatis patches are less harmful to such patients in the short and long term. I listened to "Liveline" last Friday and I heard one caller say that they were real people with real evidence and real pain. That says it all. The HSE should listen to people rather than make bureaucratic decisions that will have a huge impact on them.

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