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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Rónán Mullen: Yes. I would be quite happy to wait for the answers to Deputy Kelleher's questions also. I am learning with each new question that is answered, so it might rule out the need for some of my questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Rónán Mullen: I thank the witnesses. I also thank my colleagues because I am approaching this from a lower knowledge base, I suspect, than other people present. I told Deputy Gino Kenny when we discussed this privately that I have no skin in this game, so I wish to give the Bill the fairest hearing and consideration. Anything that purports to bring relief to people who are suffering deserves serious...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Rónán Mullen: Do we not want to get away from what one politician thinks about what another politician said here? If we are to get any clarity on this, it is the experts we need to hear from.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Rónán Mullen: I asked about them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Rónán Mullen: Is that not the first step, though, before we regulate their availability?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Rónán Mullen: Surely it is possible to legalise the production of cannabis in controlled circumstances for research purposes and to legalise research activity without changing the rules on whether cannabis itself is a prohibited drug generally.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Rónán Mullen: They do not exist.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Rónán Mullen: What are those specialists called, where they do exist? What is their branch of medicine?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Rónán Mullen: Is there a specialist somewhere internationally? What is he or she called and what is his or her job title? Where are they?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Rónán Mullen: Who would Dr. O'Grady put on the cannabis regulation authority, then?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Rónán Mullen: And the person with experience is somebody who has been prescribing cannabis-based medicine and has compiled a certain amount of data about what he has experienced.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Rónán Mullen: Where are the bodies of expertise, the equivalent ones that would be used in this case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Rónán Mullen: Everywhere except Ireland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Rónán Mullen: On the research point, before Professor Finn leaves it, did he understand Dr. O'Grady to suggest that research cannot happen because cannabis is criminalised? If that is what I understood Dr. O'Grady to say, does Professor Finn agree with that? Is Professor Finn limited in his capacity to do research because of the legal status of cannabis?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Rónán Mullen: Why does the illegality of cannabis affect Professor Finn to do it with a larger population? Presumably studies happen under a permitted structure. It is not merely a case of saying: "Let us know how you are getting on if you are smoking some cannabis." Why would the legal position affect Professor Finn's ability to conduct a more broad study?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Rónán Mullen: Is this work already done in countries where cannabis has been legal? Are the drugs there on the market elsewhere.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Rónán Mullen: Has it led to drugs on the market in other countries?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Rónán Mullen: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Rónán Mullen: Is this legislation only seeking the availability in Ireland of drugs which, under other countries' legal structures, are now available under prescription in pharmacies where prescribed by responsible clinicians?
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Apr 2017)
Rónán Mullen: Among the heroes that we all pay tribute to these days are the Irish Naval Service personnel who have been involved in unprecedented missions in the Mediterranean as they play a major operational part in assisting migrants in distress. They have been doing so since 2015. Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council recently conferred the crew of LE Eithneon behalf of the Naval Service with an...