Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

On behalf of my Labour Party colleagues, I wish the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris; his wife, Caoimhe, and their new child well. The idea of taking paternity leave is a very good one.

I have another health question for the Tánaiste. He will recall that the roll-out of free GP care was a Labour Party initiative that began in the term of office of the last Government. In bad financial times we were able to make great progress with it, but it has stalled since the change of Government. There is a commitment in the programme for Government to roll out free GP care to the under-18s. Given the lack of young adolescent mental health supports, this would be a very important contribution. When will the commitment be implemented to roll out free GP care to the under-18s?

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