Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am, of course, aware of the case of Ms Twomey and Ava and many other families around the country. Can I just make a few points on Deputy Browne's reasonable question? I have funded the medicinal cannabis access programme, MCAP, for the first time. While the programme existed previously, there was never any money allocated to it. We have now allocated money to it. It will be fully funded. It will cost a significant amount of money. We will be able to make an announcement and I look forward to being able to share that with Deputy Browne shortly. An awful lot of work has gone on this year to bring it to this point.

The Deputy will appreciate I cannot talk about any specific families for data protection reasons, obviously. For many families in this situation, what is currently happening is the products are being delivered to their front doors from Holland. That is something the Government and the State is doing. The Deputy will be-----

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