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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2022)

Leo Varadkar: ..., that would be unusual. Part of the idea behind a jury is they are a jury of your peers and not salaried or waged. However, this is an unusual situation given the inquest will go on for so long. Thus, the Minister for Justice is currently considering that and will make a response when she has a chance to do so.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2022)

Leo Varadkar: ...permission and can finance its project then it will be able to proceed. It is not the case the Government is blocking it but we have decided not to support it actively because we do not think long-term 30- or 40-year investments in fossil fuels of this nature make sense. The same thing applies to exploration. There are already many existing licences and those licences stand. People can...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2022)

Leo Varadkar: ...the families that the matter should be reopened and that inquests should be held. I led that Government at the time and very much agreed with the decision he made. That was the first time in a very long time that a Government had responded to the request by families that it be done. We are committed as a Government to ensuring that the Stardust inquest continues in a safe and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2022)

Leo Varadkar: .... I would remind him that while he may pretend to claim otherwise, Sinn Féin is very much an establishment party. In the past 20 years, his party has been in government on this island as long as my party has been. His party has co-chaired a government that is in charge of health services in Northern Ireland which consistently perform inferiorly to our health services here in terms...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2022)

Leo Varadkar: ...feel worse that children who were supposed to be helped were harmed. There was overdiagnosis and there were incorrect diagnoses. Children were put on the wrong medicines and left on them for too long, and those medicines were not properly monitored. That just should not happen and it should have been detected and identified much earlier. It is very disturbing that we find ourselves...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...One family told a colleague of mine that they were so concerned about the changes in their child's behaviour and appearance that they challenged the doctor, only for the doctor to threaten to report them to Tusla. That is disgraceful. Failures in clinical governance and oversight have had real consequences for the health and well-being of these children. Those consequences will last...