Michael Collins (Cork South-West, Independent Ireland Party)
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798. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the recommendation arising from the inquest of a person (details supplied) for the putting in place of a national policy to oversee the administration of unlicensed medicines in Ireland, which would be referred to as Ava's Protocol; the details of the process and the expected date when this protocol will be enacted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6119/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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Regulation 7 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2017 (Statutory Instrument 173/2017) provides the statutory guidelines for the administration of controlled drugs to patients and only applies to those controlled drugs with a marketing authorisation as a medicine.

Departmental officials are currently examining the recommendations of the Cork City Coroner’s office in relation to the administration of controlled drugs which are not medicines with a marketing authorisation.

Officials are not currently in a position to put a date on this process as requested.