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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Work of the Shared Island Unit: An Taoiseach (28 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Taoiseach is always within time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Work of the Shared Island Unit: An Taoiseach (28 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: I got an email in my capacity as Chairman last night from Professor William Gallagher. He presented to us here in October on an all-island cancer research industry strategy. Significant progress has been made on that as a result of the contacts that have been made. The Taoiseach is absolutely right. Considerable progress is being made on the health front. There is also Mr. Brian Rowntree...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Work of the Shared Island Unit: An Taoiseach (28 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Mr. Fergal Mythen who has been a very senior civil servant for the Department of Foreign Affairs and now is an ambassador designate to the United Nations has been extremely helpful to this committee. We find that there is considerable help from and co-operation with both the Department of the Taoiseach and the Department of Foreign Affairs which we want to continue. The committee has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Work of the Shared Island Unit: An Taoiseach (28 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: The former editor of the Drogheda Independent, Hubert Murphy, now works at Drogheda United and he is trying to organise a North-South competition at the Battle of the Boyne site for children under a certain age. It would be where the Battle of the Boyne actually happened and it would be a social and sporting event. We are working on that. I do not know how it will go but we will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Work of the Shared Island Unit: An Taoiseach (28 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: It is the way forward. I mention Hubert Murphy because he writes good articles as well. Is there any other point the Taoiseach or Deputy Carroll MacNeill would like to make?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Work of the Shared Island Unit: An Taoiseach (28 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: We now move on to Sinn Féin. I ask the members to nominate the speakers between themselves.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (26 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 1502. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on his and his Department's discussions with the Irish Dental Association in respect of the provision of appropriate dental services for medical card holders; the way that he intends to address the urgent crisis in counties Louth and Meath where over two thirds of registered dentists have left the GMS scheme since 2020; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (26 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 1522. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently review and intervene in the continued closure of the north-east regional orthopaedic unit for elective surgeries, which is leaving persons in extraordinary circumstances; if his attention has been drawn to the significant concerns raised by eight orthopaedic surgeons to HSE management in respect of the impact closures have had on the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Consultations (27 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 62. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a response will issue to the concerns raised by a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21343/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (27 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a Tenant Incremental Purchase Scheme application can be considered a joint application under a discretionary process considering the practicalities in such a circumstance further to the recent changes announced to the Tenant Incremental Purchase Scheme in which the applicants are married since 2008 but only one of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Work of the Shared Island Unit: An Taoiseach (28 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: We are under a little pressure. The clerk has just informed me, and I should have been aware of this, that we have to be out of here by 4.30 p.m. It is not because of the Taoiseach but another booking of the room. Ms Claire Hanna is next, followed by Mr. Stephen Farry. We then have a speaker from Sinn Féin and Senator Black, who are online. Ms Órfhlaith Begley is also online...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Work of the Shared Island Unit: An Taoiseach (28 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Of course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Work of the Shared Island Unit: An Taoiseach (28 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Okay. I think Dr. Farry is there. He is very welcome again.