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- 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...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: The difficulty is the Taoiseach has not done everything he can to resolve this situation. Harvey's parents, Steven and Gillian, are in the Public Gallery. They should not be here. They very fact that parents of children with scoliosis and spina bifida have to come to the Dáil in this way is a testament to failure in and of itself because their child is running out of time. That is...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: Hear hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Simon Harris: Deputy McDonald is better than that. At least, I thought she was. She is asking me, as a politician, to give a commitment to a child to have an operation regardless of whether a clinician believes that operation to be the best care pathway or not. That is what the Deputy is asking me to do.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I will now take Leaders' Questions under Standing Order 36. It is my pleasure to call Deputy McDonald.