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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Gino Kenny: I will ask Dr. O'Grady to speak.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Gino Kenny: I would like to address the contributions of Senator Mullen and Deputy Boyd Barrett. We have been misrepresented but that is for another day.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Gino Kenny: No, by an individual Deputy. She completely misrepresented my view but that is for another day. I would like to respond to Senator Mullen. I am a Deputy and I come from a certain political persuasion. In my eyes, everything is political. When I get up in the morning, it is political and when I go to sleep, it is political. That is just the reality of things. The reason I got involved...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Gino Kenny: Our Bill stipulates that the full plant extract will be available to patients. That is the bud form, the oil form, etc. As has been mentioned a number of times, the HPRA stipulated three conditions in its report. As far as I know, the medications that have been stipulated for the two conditions in question are Sativex and Epidiolex. That is like fast-tracking a pharmaceutical brand, and I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Gino Kenny: It is not tobacco. It is a bud.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Gino Kenny: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Gino Kenny: I accept what Deputy Durkan says about there being a debate between recreational and medicinal use. As for whether both are mixed up at times, the answer is "Yes", and sometimes it is very difficult to differentiate in the debate. I regard "medicinal" as meaning the extract from the full plant and that is how I define cannabis. I regard it as the organic cannabis plant and its derivatives,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Gino Kenny: There is a misconception that people are out to get stoned all the time but that is not the purpose of this. The THC and the CBD work in tandem. They are complementary and many reports show that they are very effective in combination. I am not a smoker and I do not advocate smoking tobacco at all but if somebody gets pain relief from vaping outside work they should be allowed to do that....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Gino Kenny: If somebody wants to smoke cannabis in a joint, it is their prerogative. If they want to vape, take an oil or take it in any other way that gives them relief, that is their prerogative. The vast majority of people these days vape but if somebody wants to smoke a cannabis joint for medicinal purposes, it is their prerogative. If they get relief from it, so be it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Gino Kenny: As I said before, the debate-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Gino Kenny: What page?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Gino Kenny: I have never seen that. Certain parts of the Bill can be amended. It is unintentional if that is the case.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Gino Kenny: What page?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Gino Kenny: Again that can be amended in the next Stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Gino Kenny: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Gino Kenny: It is one form of how people treat themselves with cannabis. If people have a treatment of cannabis, it is their prerogative if they want to smoke it.

Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products Availability (11 Apr 2017)

Gino Kenny: I think the Minister might have good news. I was looking at his Twitter account. We will see in a few minutes. Hopefully it is good news for the many people who have been waiting for an end to this long drawn-out saga. Hopefully weeks will turn to minutes now. As Deputy Collins said, there is a young mother, Hazel Robinson, outside the Dáil at this moment. She has been sleeping...

Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products Availability (11 Apr 2017)

Gino Kenny: It is good news. There are not many occasions when we hear such news. Sometimes in this House there is good news but most of the time it is bad news. It is good news for the people who are listening, especially the CF sufferers. This lengthy saga has been dragged out. If there is one lesson that everyone should learn, especially the Government and the HSE, it is that this should never...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (11 Apr 2017)

Gino Kenny: 58. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review FIS means testing with the rent allowance payment in view of the fact prior to 2012 FIS was not calculated when means testing for rent allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17716/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (11 Apr 2017)

Gino Kenny: 74. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the way maintenance is calculated for lone parents; the detail of the policy of cutting the income of lone parents that are not receiving maintenance from the absent parent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17717/17]