Garret Ahearn (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I never said anything about the Chair. I just said that if I have a prepared speech, I will get five minutes to speak.

Along with others, I mark the one-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine. As others have said, the House has played a key role in condemning it and I thank people for putting their name to today's motion. However, there is a presentation at 11.30 a.m. with the Ukrainian ambassador featuring pictures of the first days and weeks of the war. They were pictures shown to people in the church in Bucha. Myself and Senator Ward saw them when we were there. I encourage everybody to look at these. They give a graphic image of the first couple of days of the war in Ukraine. If people want to get a real of what was happening in those first few weeks, I encourage them to be there at 11.30 a.m.

I ask that we have a debate with the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, on two issues. The first is the drug, Cariban, for women suffering from hyperemesis. We had a meeting with representatives of Hyperemesis Ireland last week, and they gave full details of the problems that people are encountering and the fact that the Department of Health are stalling on giving this drug cost free without a consultant having to sign off on it. There is no justification for it. The Department is trying to block women from having this drug. It is a debate we need to have, and I would appreciate if it could happen soon.