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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Simon Harris: I have no interest at all in this country being used as a pawn in British politics. We have an agreement in place. It is called a standard operating procedure for processing and transferring asylum seekers between the UK and Ireland.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: How is it enforced?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Simon Harris: I ask the Deputy to stop interrupting. The agreement has been in place since 2020 and it sets out the procedure. It is an operational guide that is rooted in the following legislation of this country: the International Protection Act 2015 and Part 18 of the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Act 2020, which the Deputy may or may not have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I will take the Ceann Comhairle back to my maiden speech when he was also in the Chair. My maiden speech related to UHL. What disappoints me is that it has taken four years for the Opposition to finally stand up and join me over UHL. It has taken four years for Opposition Deputies to stand up officially and talk about UHL. Because an election is coming, they are all jumping all over it....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please, Deputy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: That is a matter of public record. It is written on the papers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: It might be, but the Deputy is getting into extremely dangerous territory. We are not entitled to make any accusations or implications in respect of the professionalism of any individual, whether he or she is leading a hospital or in any other profession.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Okay. I will take whatever comes down the line on this. People are dying in that hospital. If it was your daughter or son, would you be sitting here and pulling me on the same thing? Would you? Four or five years down the line, there has been no change.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Thank you, Deputy, your time is up.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Two young people have died and there has been no change. That is the problem with UHL.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising an issue about which he clearly, and understandably, feels passionate. Without wishing to make Opposition parties in this House feel uncomfortable, I do not doubt that all parties raise this issue on a regular basis. I do not doubt the bona fides of anybody on any side of this House in respect of wanting to see progress in healthcare and in respect of UHL....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Taoiseach. I am not suggesting that acquiring Barrington's Hospital is going to solve all the problems by any means but it will make a significant contribution to expanding capacity. It is an existing operating hospital and could be brought onstream very speedily. I welcome the fact that the Taoiseach will pursue that further. Other critical things obviously need to happen...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Simon Harris: I certainly will come back to the Deputy on those three issues. I will liaise directly with the Minister for Health and revert to her then. I take the point about global figures and the need to make sure that we do not just use them and that we get under the bonnet. I would just say on the recruitment issue that I have endeavoured to do quite a bit of that in relation to UHL. By any...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: In July 2023, I asked the Minister for Justice how many asylum seekers were coming from Britain through the North of Ireland into the South of Ireland over the past five years. At that stage, approximately 66% of those were making applications to the International Protection Office. The Minister stated in her reply to the parliamentary question that the question about what routes they used...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Simon Harris: I reject out of hand the Deputy's hypothesis relating to our migration situation in this country. The reason we have seen a very significant increase in people coming, not just to Ireland but right across the European Union is multifold. None of them have anything to do with the name of the Minister for Justice of any country. That is very clear. Anybody with any understanding of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising important issues relating to our health service. She has touched on a number of topics and made a point about recruitment that I want to respond to as well. She began by referencing University Hospital Limerick. I, too, welcome the decision by the Minister for Health and the HSE chief executive yesterday to send a specific support team to Limerick to help to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach may well talk about living within budgets. He is hardly a poster boy for that. I quoted the €650 million a year on agency staff. I could also quote the €140 million a year on management and legal consultancy at peak in 2022. Heaven forbid that I would go near the €2.2 billion on his children's hospital that has yet to be delivered.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Simon Harris: The Deputy will be at the opening.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Save the homily on living within budgets for someone else. The facts are these; at University Hospital Limerick, as was confirmed to the Oireachtas committee, every single day, there are patients who are deemed sick enough to require admission who cannot be admitted. That is the reality day-on-day.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Deputies: Hear, hear.