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WATCH: Gardaí remove Vera Twomey from her sit down protest outside the Dáil

Published 18:28 4 May 2017 BST

Alan Loughnane
WATCH: Gardaí remove Vera Twomey from her sit down protest outside the Dáil

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She was removed on Thursday after camping overnight outside Leinster House.

Vera Twomey had been holding a sit-down protest at the gates of the Dáil to get a meeting with Minister for Health, Simon Harris. Ms Twomey and three of her colleagues camped outside Leinster House last night and today in order to ensure her seven-year-old daughter Ava is given access to cannabidiol (CBD) oil, a type of medicinal cannabis. However, on Thursday evening she, and of her three colleagues, were removed by Gardaí from their place at the gates of Leinster House. https://twitter.com/MrJustinMac/status/860177240662966275 Ms Twomey believes that access to CBD oil will prevent her daughter from having seizures as a result living with a rare form of Dravet's Syndrome. She started the protest in an effort to have a meeting with Simon Harris.

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