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

I raise an issue I have raised numerous times in the House, namely, Opposition Bills and in particular to the Bill I put forward a year ago on medicinal cannabis. A meeting of the sub-committee on Dáil reform has been proposed three times and been cancelled three times in March. We talk here about new politics but what I see is completely dysfunctional politics. People are being granted licences by the Minister for Health for medicinal cannabis and have to leave the country. Not only that, it costs €4,500 for three months’ supply. That is in the case of Ava Barry who lives in the Tánaiste’s county of Cork. This issue is a complete mess not only on Opposition Bills, but on medicinal cannabis. While the House fumbles, people are suffering.

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