Violet-Anne Wynne (Clare, Independent)
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177. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to introduce emergency access pathways for those who already hold medical cards to be reimbursed via the primary care reimbursement scheme for those who have been approved by ministerial licence for access to medicinal cannabis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18590/23]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Irish-registered medical practitioners may apply to the Minister for Health for a licence to access cannabis for medical use for a named patient under their care. Applications for this Ministerial licence can only be accepted from:

• An individual patient’s medical consultant, where evidence of an established doctor-patient relationship exists, or
• From the individual patient’s GP where the application is also accompanied by a written endorsement for the cannabis treatment from the patient’s medical consultant.

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