Vera Twomey 'delighted' access to medicinal cannabis continues amid Covid-19 outbreak

Minister for Health, Simon Harris, today announced an initiative for patients who avail of a Ministerial licence for medicinal cannabis products to have the products delivered from Holland to Ireland.

Ms Twomey frequently travels to the Netherlands to fill her medicinal cannabis prescription. File picture.

Medicinal cannabis campaigner, Vera Twomey, who fought a lengthy campaign to secure medicinal cannabis for her sick daughter has said she is "beyond relieved" that the Department of Health is facilitating the delivery of the medicine from abroad for persons with a license.

Ms Twomey and several other patients throughout the country frequently travel to the Netherlands to fill their medicinal cannabis prescription.