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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Mark Wall: That is what I have been informed by the clerk.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We might continue, Chair. The Taoiseach has signalled a willingness to continue.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: That is very unfair of Deputy Tóibín. He arrived late himself.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: In fairness, we get a minute. It is timed and we are told to stop. There was no umpiring of the time on this occasion at all.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: I am normally very generous, Deputy. Come on. I am normally very generous.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Mark Wall: I am told the rule is 45 minutes. The time is up so I have to proceed to the next item on the Order of Business, which is statements.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Normally, the time is split in a certain way to make sure the three groupings are taken in the 45 minutes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: In the first grouping, there were many questions answered. I accept there are several questions in the third grouping. A lot of people did not turn up at all at the beginning. It cuts each way. All of the Deputies wanted this session------

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: It should cut both ways. That is the point I am trying to make.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----but the number of Deputies who were absent at the beginning of this session left me surprised.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: I have a point of order. On the previous occasion when statements on nursing homes were taken, some of us waited until the very end of the night to get our slot. I hope that will be taken now.

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I thank the Minister of State for being here. He is very much aware of the "RTÉ Investigates" programme and the work that was done by Aoife Hegarty and her team. It was an example of quality public service broadcasting. I know the Minister of State, like me and so many others, was appalled by what he saw on his screen. I know he wants to take action on foot of that. The Taoiseach...

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

David Cullinane: As was said, the first priority should be ensuring people are cared for in the home and in the community. The difficulty is that many older people are waiting for intensive home care packages. In the previous term and the previous programme for Government, the then Government promised a statutory home care scheme. It never the light of day. I am not sure when that will ever come. I...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: There is a huge shortage.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: There is not a huge shortage. Thousands of people have been recruited. Let us be straight about it. The seven-day use of hospitals is something that should happen. It should not be dependent on more and more staff. The assets were not being used. Expensive diagnostic equipment was not being used optimally and the hospitals themselves were not being used optimally when there were...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: On the issue of children's health in this country, the Taoiseach gave a glowing introduction, but we have the ongoing scandals at CHI. The latest is no disclosure to parents of the failure of CHI to operate or give treatment to boys with undescended testes leading to potential infertility and cancer issues. Yet, that did not meet the threshold for disclosure. I do not have time in this...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Máire Devine: In my first six months as a TD, I have been asked to intervene in four emergency mental health cases for constituents in Dublin South-Central. Three were for severe eating disorders where the patient's family feared for their survival if appropriate treatment was not provided immediately. The fourth acute patient simply sought a second medical opinion but was discouraged by the HSE at every...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Almost ten years ago the Taoiseach stood outside University Hospital Waterford with a billboard promising 24-7 cardiac care for Waterford and the south-east. Ten years on, the people of the south-east are still waiting. Cabinet approval was announced two months ago but since then there has been no detailed plan, timeline or staffing strategy. Announcements are cheap and it is delivery that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: The Mazars report stated that the HSE has not been implementing the legal timelines for the reimbursement of medicines. I can refer to at least four studies commissioned in the past year that show legal timelines are not being adhered to. In February last year, the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association published a paper showing that 86% of all reimbursements did not adhere to the...