Medicinal Cannabis Bill must go before Health Committee immediately- no more Government stalling People Before Profit TD, Gino Kenny, will today join Vera Twomey she attempts to walk from Cork to Dublin in order to get the Health Minister to recognise her daughters need for medicinal cannabis. Vera’s daughter, Ava Barry, has a form of…
From the Irish Times: When I walked up the main entrance of Leinster House with my mother in tow and party comrades Richard Boyd Barrett and Bríd Smith on the first day of the 32nd Dáil I was filled with a mixture of emotions. The sense of surrealism and being overwhelmed wasn’t so much about…
‘The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme is the latest in a long litany of scandals in which the Executive has been involved. The DUP may be the biggest offenders, but they are not alone. The revelations that Michelle O’Neill’s department organised 58 workshops explaining RHI’s benefits, later stating that promoting the scheme was “the right…
Frances Fitzgerald has major questions to answer. On The Week In Politics she claimed that her first knowledge of the child sex abuse claims labelled by Tusla against Sgt Maurice McCabe was last Thursday on Prime Time. She also claimed that although she knew the Minister for Children, Katherine Zappone, had met with Sgt McCabe…
From the Irish Times Colin Gleeson Gino Kenny Bill backed as hundreds attend symposium on case for drug’s therapeutic use People Before Profit has called for unrestricted access to medicinal cannabis for patients who need it. Speaking at a symposium arguing the case for medicinal cannabis in Dublin on Saturday, a spokesman for the party…
