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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jun 2024)

Michael McGrath: -----and tease out all of the issues-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Nine hours.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jun 2024)

Michael McGrath: -----over the course of next week and the Whip will respond on that in due course.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I wish Martin all the best in his retirement as well. I had the pleasure of meeting him many years before he started working in the House here.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jun 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Of beating him?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jun 2024)

Thomas Pringle: Yes, many years ago, and we rekindled that when he began to work in the House. I wish him well in his retirement. I am sure the Minister will agree that migrant doctors, nurses and consultants play a vital role in our hospitals and GP clinics and are keeping our healthcare system from collapsing completely. It is essential that we are doing everything we can to retain all healthcare...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2024)

Michael McGrath: I thank the Deputy. First, looking to the medium to long term and the need to ensure there are adequate facilities and infrastructure at University Hospital Galway, as the Deputy knows, we are making progress on the delivery of major capital projects that are planned for the hospital. A formal project board has now been established. We are finalising a master plan for the development of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: One almost loses the will to live in regard to this. In 2014, the accident and emergency unit was deemed not fit for purpose. Ten years later, it is still not fit for purpose. The Minister tells me money is going into it. There are 62 people on trolleys. They should not be on trolleys. We live in a Republic. The Government has normalised a situation where patients are on trolleys. I...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2024)

Michael McGrath: The facilities at University Hospital Galway are not fit for purpose. I have been there in recent months and I am very much aware of the ambitious capital investment plans, which we will support. They need to happen because the scale of demand for services there is only going to go in one direction, and we have to ensure we have not just the staffing but the physical infrastructure to meet...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jun 2024)

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jun 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Before moving on, by way of information to the House, I want to let Members know that one of our longer serving and most respected ushers will retire tomorrow after 22 years' service. Before he came to us here, Martin Murray worked in the newspaper sector, in journalism and editing. In fact, he worked from the age of 14, I understand. He is a great traveller and he loves Malta, one of his...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jun 2024)

Chris Andrews: A Cheann Comhairle, if I can just say, this will give Martin plenty of time to practise his fantasy football.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jun 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Okay. Now, we go to Questions on Policy or Legislation.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jun 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Ceann Comhairle and let me also, Martin, be associated with the words of the Ceann Comhairle. I wish you all the best in your retirement and thank you, on behalf of Sinn Féin, for all the assistance you gave us and the whole team in the Oireachtas throughout the 22 years. We really appreciate that. Yesterday, the public had a case of déjà vu, with the chair of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2024)

Michael McGrath: I thank Deputy Naughten for raising what is a very important issue. The first point I want to make is that the Government is committed to ensuring that patients in Ireland get timely access to new and innovative medicines. In my time in the Department of public expenditure and reform, this was an issue on which we consulted and worked very closely with the Minister for Health, Deputy...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: Patients with rare diseases face even greater challenges in accessing new treatments or orphan drugs, as they are often called. On average, they wait nearly 26 months. This delay is especially tragic, as approximately 30% of children with a rare disease will pass away before their fifth birthday. The impact of these delays on patients with rare diseases is profound. How can we defend a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2024)

Michael McGrath: This is a priority area for the Government. It is one that I am very familiar with. I know very well of companies, such as BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc., which operates in my constituency in Cork and which focuses on the manufacturing of drugs for rare diseases, namely orphan drugs. We engage with it and others in the industry on an ongoing basis because we want to ensure that people who...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Táim ag díriú isteach ar ospidéal na Gaillimhe arís agus ar an méid othair atá ar thralaithe, 62 inniu. Tá daoine ag fulaingt agus ag fáil bháis ar thralaithe fad is atáimid ag caint is ag ceiliúradh torthaí na dtoghchán. I am glad the Minister is here today. He previously served as Minister for public expenditure and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2024)

Michael McGrath: A full investigation is under way. It has been under way for a number of weeks. The abattoir where the slaughtering is taking place is a regulated environment. I want to be clear that the animal welfare rules apply everywhere. They apply also in the holding area even if that is not the area where the inspection was actually taking place, which is in the slaughterhouse itself. In the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: Before I begin, I send the best wishes of the Labour Party to Deputy Jennifer Whitmore. Last night's "Prime Time Investigates" exposed some shocking practices in the Irish horse racing industry focusing on how horses, most of them racing thoroughbreds, are treated in the final period of their lives. After a life which many of them spent in the public spotlight being worked, they then enter...