Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Griffin need not worry. I will carry on from where he left off. What we are asking is how can we put a price on a child's life. How will we get the HSE to engage? What is the timeframe? Those are the questions. What gives us, as a political establishment, the right to put a price on a child's life? I know we have to mind the purse strings of Government and everything else in the national interest but at the end of the day we are speaking about parents, their children and their lives.

The other issue I would like to pick up on is that this depends on the weight of a child. The limit is 25 kg. The price and the weight matter. In light of what Deputy Griffin has stated, and given the HSE could make the decision for those six years old and over, the HSE needs to go back and review the situation and engage on the issue. If we can do it for six year olds, we can do it for those who are younger.

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