Catherine Byrne (Dublin South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I cannot answer the second last question but I will try to read back on the script. The Minister for Health looks forward to cannabis products being available to patients living in Ireland who come within the scope of the MCAP. The Department of Health's website continues to be updated with information on the scheme as it comes available. Until such time as cannabis comes available on the Irish market for use, access programme clinicians may continue to apply for a ministerial licence to prescribe medical cannabis for an individual patient under their care.

6 o’clock

The Deputy asked when the product can come into Ireland, but I cannot answer that because it is clear from the Minister's reply that the proper legislation and the European programme must be passed first. Finding a supplier seems to be a problem as well.

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