Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I wish to again ask about the publication of the national Traveller health action plan and the status of the planning advisory committee on Traveller health. I raised this matter with the Taoiseach last week. He stated that he did not have an update but that he would raise the issue with the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Catherine Byrne, and the Minister, Deputy Harris, and try to get a better reply. I have heard nothing from the Taoiseach's office, the Minister or the Minister of State since.

I also raised the related issue of the failure of the State to support the two surviving children of the Carrickmines fire of October 2015, in which ten of their family members died - their two parents, three siblings and five others. In recent months, I have pursued this issue with six different Ministers. There has been no evidence of any willingness on their part to help these children.

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