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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Are committee members being called first?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The term "expertise" has been used a lot. What specific experience, knowledge or expertise do the Department of Health officials or the PSI representatives have in the area of medicinal cannabis, research in that area or clinical expertise in the specific area of medicinal cannabis products? My understanding - I am happy to be contradicted - is that they have no such knowledge, expertise or...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We want the Department of Health's comment on those allegations.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Department not trust doctors to prescribe?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what the Bill is proposing. That is factually incorrect.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It does not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It does not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It does not. It says a doctor prescribes authorised products.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Bill would allow them to be authorised. What Mr. Lennon says is complete nonsense.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what the Department says and we say the HPRA can do it. We are saying that doctors would prescribe medicines authorised by a regulatory body. The latter would be either the HPRA or a cannabis regulatory authority, we do not care which. That is what it says and Mr. Lennon knows that damn well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: All the people selling the stuff that is out there now are making a lot of money out of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. Lennon is saying that the Department does not trust GPs to prescribe a product that we are proposing-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. Lennon expressed concern about GPs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the concern? Does Mr. Lennon think general practitioners are going to prescribe a dangerous product?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: For epilepsy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. Lennon did not answer the question about pain.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Experts who know nothing about cannabis.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is unfortunate that many of my questions have not been answered. I asked the following direct question. What specific expertise and knowledge does the Department of Health, the PSI or the HPRA have in the area of cannabis? I do not doubt that the organisations employs experts in their fields. I want to know who we have taken advice from. Are they experts who know nothing or a lot...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We do that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not say that.