Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)

A statement was promised by the Taoiseach from the Minister for Health three weeks ago. He was to report back on the crisis arising from the junior doctors debacle. We have still no notion of when that statement might be made.

The Taoiseach might have noted that I welcomed the Government's commitment to look positively on the obligations of the Irish and British Governments to examine the report published yesterday by the human rights institutions in Belfast and Dublin in which they argued for a single human rights charter for the island of Ireland. Sinn Féin welcomes that. It was part of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. Will the Government allow time for a debate on the issue?

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