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

Richard Boyd Barrett: This Bill seeks to allow for that. I am not just referring to the limited number of herbal products - I believe it is one - that are available in Ireland. It has components of cannabis but is not the entire product. I wish to ask Professor Finn about something. As someone who is involved in the pain area via an organisation named-----

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not Professor Finn's job to be political, but is he surprised that pain has been left out of the recommendation of the Health Products Regulatory Authority, HPRA, or that it suggested that there was not much evidence of this product's efficacy when Professor Michael Barnes says the opposite? Professor Barnes seems to suggest that the highest level of evidence concerns pain and that...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: They do not want it for its psychoactive properties.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: This relates to research and not to use. The specific sections the Chairman has mentioned state that if there is a research institute, that research institute would look into both the medicinal and recreational use and would look at research being done in both of those areas in other countries. It is important to say that. We could have a debate on Committee Stage as to whether the...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is very simple. Without a certificate from a doctor giving the right to use medicinal cannabis, a person will be committing an offence. That is what the Bill stipulates. Nothing has changed.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is regardless of what form that medicinal cannabis takes. Possession of the vape form, tablet form or herbal form will be an offence without possession of a certificate provided by a doctor recommending the use of that product for that specific person.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: If I am with Deputy Durkan and I do not have the certificate and I am using his medicinal cannabis for which he has a certificate, I will be guilty of an offence, but he will not because he has a certificate.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Pharmacies throughout the country dispense methadone, which is a very dangerous drug. It is highly illegal for anybody to have possession of methadone that is not prescribed and given out under controlled conditions by pharmacies. Is it enforced well? How is it enforced? We know there is leakage with methadone that gets sold on in the black market and so on. That could be just as easily...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: That product may be medicinal cannabis.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: At some point it will be.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish something would.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Multidenominational Schools (5 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 47. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider re-examining the model for teaching of faith formation in the community national schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16700/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Multidenominational Schools (5 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the detail of the advice given by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, NCCA, to his Department regarding the separation of children for faith formation in community national schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16699/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Multidenominational Schools (5 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the situation in community national schools regarding the separation of children for faith formation classes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16698/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (5 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a project (details supplied) will be advised as to whether its revised building project to relieve overcrowding will be funded by his Department; the timeframe for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16696/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youthreach Programme Staff (5 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if revised pay scales and allowances for persons recruited to certain direct entry grades are applicable to the position of Youthreach resource person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16697/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme (5 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will sanction the necessary funds for a school (details supplied) for the much needed upgrade works that were deferred in 2016 and are due to be carried out in 2017. [17146/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service Remuneration (5 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 260. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which the 1984 Civil Service spouses and children's superannuation scheme conforms with the provision of the Payment of Wages Act 1991 on the necessity for written consent from employees for the deduction to be made from their wages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16976/17]

Brexit: Statements (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Mick Barry. Deputy Adams said that Theresa May does not care about the people of this island, North or South, and he is absolutely right. Frankly, she does not care about the vast majority of people in Britain, but she certainly does not care about the people here, North or South. She has allowed, and I suspect she will continue to allow, her cynical...

Topical Issue Debate: Bus Éireann (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the Minister answer the question on Transport Infrastructure Ireland-----