Seanad debates

Wednesday, 16 December 2015

10:30 am

Photo of Fidelma Healy EamesFidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Lots of valuable items are being discussed in the House today. I add my voice to the urgent call for a debate on the provision of the new drug, Orkambi, for cystic fibrosis sufferers. We are talking about not only quality of life, but life or death. One can rule it out of order all one wants but if it was one's life that was on the line, one would like to think that Parliament would at least hear a motion on a drug that could save one's life.

I would like to be strongly associated with the words of Senator Ó Clochartaigh about the need for the PSO to be put in place for the ferry to Inis Mór. Once again, we are in a mess when it comes to the Aran Islands.

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