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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (5 Oct 2021)

Seán Crowe: 683. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in the CHO7 area awaiting a special needs assessment. [48158/21]

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Crowe: Ireland is in an unenviable position of relying on Fianna Fáil to fix the housing crisis that many believe it created. Does anyone really believe the architects of the recession, who drove us off the cliff, will fix the housing crisis? Like every housing plan we have seen from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, it is a developers' charter that will pour even more money into the pockets of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Crowe: Apologies have been received from Deputy Róisín Shortall and Senator Annie Hoey. There is one piece of housekeeping to deal with before I bring in the witnesses. I refer to the draft minutes for the meetings of 6, 7, 12, 13, 14 and 15 July 2021. Are the draft minutes of our public meetings of 6, 7, 12 and 15 July 2021, the private meetings of 13 and 14 July 2021 and the public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Crowe: I welcome the witnesses from the HSE, the Department of Health and the Health Products Regulatory Authority to our meeting. They will provide us with an update on the medical cannabis access programme. I welcome from the HSE, Mr. Shaun Flanagan, assistant national director, HSE primary care reimbursement service, PCRS, and Professor Bryan Lynch, consultant paediatric neurologist, Children's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Crowe: Loud and clear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Crowe: I thank Mr. O'Connor and invite Mr. Flanagan from the HSE to make his opening remarks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Crowe: I thank Mr. Flanagan and invite Dr. Nolan from the HPRA to make her opening remarks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Crowe: Thank you. I will open it up to members. I call Deputy Bernard Durkan, who has come straight from the Dáil Chamber.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Crowe: Thank you. Who wishes to respond?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Crowe: We are having some IT difficulties. I ask the witnesses to bear with us. We can hear Mr. Flanagan loud and clear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Crowe: Maybe the committee could follow up on that suggestion on monitoring.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Crowe: I listened to the submissions this morning. It seems a very tortuous route to try to get access to a product. Mr. O'Connor said that in recent years, the use of cannabis products for medical reasons has been an issue of social and political debate in Ireland and abroad and there have been calls for cannabis products to be made available to Irish patients. My understanding is that trying to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Crowe: With regard to the difficulty with the Dutch authorities, is there anything we can do as a committee or as legislators in that regard? Does there have to be a conversation between the Department of Justice here and its equivalent in the Netherlands, or can anybody answer that question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Crowe: I am sorry, Mr. Brennan, but we cannot hear you. We are having difficulty hearing you at this end. What were you saying?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Crowe: No, it is still very low. Would taking the headphones off make a difference?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Crowe: Thank you. Some more members have arrived. They were at other meetings. I call Senator Conway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Crowe: I now invite Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne. The Deputy is very welcome. I believe it is her first time to address the health committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Crowe: A few of those questions were answered during the meeting. Perhaps the witnesses could concentrate on the last one, although it was touched on as well. We are running out of time. This is the health committee and we want to work to guidelines laid down by the Houses.