Maria Byrne (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I wish both Munster and Leinster the very best of luck in their two quarter finals this weekend. The matches are taking place on Saturday and Sunday. They will certainly put Ireland on the map, and hopefully both teams will win.

It was Daffodil Day last Friday. We often speak about parking charges for cancer patients at hospitals, but University Hospital Limerick, along with the hospitals in Ennis and Nenagh, have been to the fore on this issue. They announced recently that people who are in receipt of dialysis and cancer patients receiving treatment would not have to pay hospital car parking charges. This is most welcome. I call on all other hospitals to follow suit, because when people are in hospital for treatment they are at a very vulnerable time in their lives and not feeling well. Sometimes they come out of the hospital and have no change, and it is terrible that they are asked to pay for their car parking.