Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am glad that at long last progress is being made on this matter. It is a pilot programme that will run for five years. I recognise the Deputy’s work in helping to bring us to this point, as well as the families mentioned by him. The medical cannabis access programme provides for medical cannabis to be prescribed in three circumstances where a patient has failed to respond to standard treatments. They include spasticity associated with MS, intractable nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy and severe refractory treatment resistant epilepsy. Any decision to extend its use to other illnesses or symptoms would have to be made on clinical grounds, rather than it being a political decision.

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