Garret Ahearn (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----if he had not come down himself without telling them. We had a meeting with him yesterday in which he said he was arriving this morning to meet them so he obviously kept what he was doing quiet and that has triggered them trying to hide patients, which is an utter disgrace.

I want to ask the Acting Leader two questions. It was reported last night by Daniel McConnell that at the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party meeting, the Minister for Health spoke about a drug for women who suffer from hyperemesis called Cariban. I have spoken about it a number of times, including this week and last year. Could the Minister make a statement on that? If it is true then women who suffer from severe illness and sickness during their pregnancies would be supported financially. It costs them approximately €3,000 during their pregnancies and they have never been supported financially by the State for it. From the comments I read from Daniel McConnell it seems that will change.

The announcements on the sports capital grants have been hugely welcomed in Tipperary but from the day the applications were made to when the announcement has been made, the costs incurred by clubs to build AstroTurf pitches, floodlights and everything else have dramatically increased. Will the Acting Leader ask the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, to come into the Chamber and outline whether funding will be set aside for the increased costs that sports clubs will incur since they initially applied for these sports capital grants back in 2019?