Róisín Shortall
Ceist:469. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Health his plans to introduce primary or secondary legislation to amend the definition of specified controlled drug in the Misuse of Drugs (Prescription and Control of Supply of Cannabis for Medical Use) Regulations 2019 to include products that are permitted to be sold or supplied in the United Kingdom in addition to EU member states, given the legislation was passed at a time when the UK was an EU member state, in order that beneficial medical products which meet the criteria in his Department’s Clinical Guidance on Cannabis for Medical Use may be made available to Irish patients with severe treatment-resistant epilepsy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27073/21]
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