Department to be asked about recommendations on medicinal cannabis use in hospitals

Cork girl Ava Barry was given medical cannabis for treatment of seizures but her mother was the only person licensed to administer it

Vera Twomey with her daughter Ava Barry in 2016. Picture: Denis Minihane.

The Tánaiste is to contact the Department of Health to ask how it plans to recommend the protocol recommended by jurors in the inquest of Cork girl Ava Barry.

The 13-year-old from Aghabullogue was provided with access to medicinal cannabis for treatment of seizures arising from a form of epilepsy called Dravet syndrome, after a campaign by her mother Vera Twomey.