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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: On a different matter, I welcome the Taoiseach's announcement the other day on Lough Funshinagh. An Bord Pleanála will get the application before Friday. I know it is three weeks late and I hope it can be expedited. I welcome it. This evening, we will debate the Apple tax and we are talking about fair sums of money in the budget. Money does not solve every problem. In late 2022,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Collins: The debacle caused by the National Ambulance Service over the past weekend has to be seriously investigated. The NAS caused fury in counties Cork and Kerry when it announced further reduction of services covering these areas. This effectively was leaving no ambulance cover for the Skibbereen area on Mondays, no service in Castletownbere on Tuesdays, no day service in Clonakilty and Bantry...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Collins for raising the matter. The Minister for Health became aware of this on Monday morning and, as the Deputy has requested, he had intervened by Monday afternoon to resolve the matter. Once it was brought to the Minister’s attention, he took swift action. I commend him for that because this never should have happened and it was never the intention that it would...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)

Holly Cairns: The Taoiseach said this Government takes nothing off the table and anyone who thinks they will get off the hook is wrong but for his information, this has literally just happened with regard to the redress scheme for mother and baby homes. The Minister went over cap in hand to the Church to try to get a contribution and did not get one. Is the Taoiseach aware of a legal strategy that is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)

Simon Harris: Has the Deputy done that because this is not just a debating chamber? She is a legislator. Anybody can bring forward legislation in this House so if she has ideas about how she thinks the law should be changed, she should bring them forward and we will engage with her.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)

Gary Gannon: We will.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)

Simon Harris: Thank you very much because we are not just here to commentate on this most shocking national tragedy and trauma. We are here to come forward with ideas. I do not intend to play politics with this or throw the Deputy's words back at her in the way she tends to misrepresent mine. I was calling on people who call themselves Christian to act in accordance with their values. I also said that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The clinician.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)

Simon Harris: No. Unless over the summer the Deputy became a surgeon, she is asking me to recommend clinical care pathways for an extraordinarily sick child. I want that child, Harvey, to get the best clinical care possible. I want Harvey to get all of the treatment possible. I want every child in Ireland, as does the Minister for Health, to get all of the care possible and I believe the best way to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: That has not happened.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)

Simon Harris: -----it is the clinical care that is recommended. I believe that to happen. When I corresponded last night with the family, that is the point I made. We are very happy for my team to talk to the family, very happy to help in every way we can but, ultimately-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)

David Cullinane: They are waiting for years.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)

Simon Harris: -----a clinical decision will have to be made here and for the Deputy to suggest that there is some clinical lever that I can pull that I just could not be bothered pulling is insulting to parents of sick children.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)

David Cullinane: That is not what we are saying.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)

Simon Harris: The Deputy is better than that and sick children deserve better than that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Four years as Minister for Health.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Can we have order now, please?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)

Simon Harris: Stop playing politics with the issue.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)

Holly Cairns: The report into abuse in religious-run schools is horrific. Hundreds of predators subjected thousands of children to relentless sexual abuse. Survivors described being molested, stripped naked, raped and drugged in an atmosphere of terror and silence. The abuse happened in classrooms, offices and sports facilities. Some were sexually abused in their own homes by predators who had gained...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising this extraordinarily important issue. Lives have been destroyed. A national trauma has been unleashed and I join with her in paying tribute to Mark - I am thinking of him and his memory today - his brother David and, indeed, all the survivors and victims who came forward. They have done the State an extraordinary service. Let me be crystal clear just in...