Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Tá dhá cheist agam: ceann amháin faoi chlár an Rialtais agus an ceann eile faoi Ibrahim Halawa. I am advised that the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade told the family of Ibrahim Halawa that he was to be sentenced today and that the Government was poised to submit an immediate request thereafter for a presidential decree to be issued to have him released and returned home. Today the trial was postponed again and this young citizen is still being held in horrendous conditions. Will the Government submit the request for a presidential decree to ensure this young man will be returned home?

Tá ceist eile agam on the commitment in the programme for Government to cancer care pathways. The programme commits the Government to ensuring "appropriate care pathways are in place to improve cancer services". I have been contacted, as, I am sure, other Teachta Dalaí have, by numerous citizens suffering from a form of cancer known as sarcoma.

They have informed me that the locum contract of the consultant medical oncologist at St. Vincent's University Hospital will expire at the end of the week. They are concerned that the necessary expertise will be lost. Can the Tánaiste assure them that the expertise in sarcoma care will be retained at St. Vincent's University Hospital?

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