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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: Excuse me-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: This child has waited five years. This child is suffering. This child can be treated in the United States. The clinicians have told Keara, his mother, that four weeks of halo-gravity traction treatment, which she cannot access here, and then another four weeks will be needed, at least, for the surgery, which will be complex but those surgeons can do it. She needs clarity. She has been...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: They are resolved.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: The child is 13. Boys who are 13 years old do not want to be mentioned on the floor of the Dáil. I know because I reared one myself. The last thing he wants is his name mentioned here. Yet his mother is so desperate now that she felt moved to put up a video of him and to ask that this matter be raised directly with the Taoiseach. He can get the treatment he needs in the United States.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: She needs to know when they are travelling. The people in the United States need confirmation that the resources are available and the bill will be paid.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am challenging the Taoiseach because if I were the Taoiseach, I would sort this out.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
(Interruptions).
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Sort it out today for that family.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: The Ceann Comhairle will understand why I am finding it hard to take a moralistic lecture on child protection from the leader of the Opposition today of all days.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: For goodness' sake.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
(Interruptions).
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: She might come back to us on that. I cannot ask her a question in this House but there is a function available to her and she should use it because she should apply the same standards to herself as she applies to everybody else.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Pauline Tully: Answer the question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: I will answer the question. The Deputy is trying to do this thing. She stands up and talks about being slick and soundbites. She has obviously decided that I am now living rent-free in her head. That is fine.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
(Interruptions).
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: The reality of the situation here, Deputy McDonald, is that I will work with this family, but I will not have her wrongly represent who I am, my values or the work I do. I will work every day to help every child who needs access.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Matt Carthy: The Taoiseach made promises to this family.