Under Standing Order 35(3).

Any Member is permitted under the standing order to propose an amendment to the Order of Business. I propose that we need statements and questions taken by the Minister for Health in respect to the emerging scandal around hip dysplasia surgery and unnecessary surgeries, it seems, on very young children.

And questions.

And questions.

She will not be answering questions.

There is a shocker.

I want to read to the Taoiseach a letter from Nikita Clarke, who is from Dublin and who I met recently. She suffers from suspected endometriosis: Thank you for taking time out of your day to read this letter. Please listen carefully, this is not easy to talk or write about. I am 18-years-old and instead of getting my driver's licence, picking out a Debs dress, studying for my leaving cert, going out with friends or getting a job, I spend my days sitting bed in horrific amounts of pain. My days just roll in all toge…

Nikita is 18-years-old. I am more than happy to forward the correspondence to the Taoiseach and the Minister. Nikita will travel to Romania to get the care she requires. Despite the assertions in his response, the fact is that the level of care here is simply unacceptable.

I know of a woman who lost a kidney to endometriosis. I know a 27-year-old who went through a radical hysterectomy because the disease, in her case, had eaten away at her pelvic organs and bowel. The services are not available to women and there should not be any attempt to dismiss or downplay the real experiences of women and girls. They are asking now for proper investment. Have a framework by all means but we need a specialised centre that offers the care that is required. Experts have been telling the Governmen…

The Government knows this. Yet, that treatment and service are not available.

Why is the Government instead offering treatments that the experts have told it will fall short and will fail? I appeal to the Taoiseach to listen to the voice of this young woman and those of the other women whose lives have been devastated by the failure to provide them with the care they need here in Ireland.

So many of them are now travelling. That is the most damning evidence of the Government's failure.

I do not know who the Taoiseach is listening to.

Ba mhaith liom fáilte a chur roimh na mná ón Ríocht. There is a group of women in the Gallery from an Ríocht, the Kingdom of Kerry. Fáilte. In May 1997, Sean Brown, a father of six, was abducted and murdered by the Loyalist Volunteer Force gang while locking up the gates of Bellaghy Wolfe Tones GAA club in County Derry. Sean's courageous wife, Bridie, and his family have fought for almost 30 years to uncover the truth about his murder. Last year at an inquest hearing, it emerged that more than 25 people had been li…

As has been said, nobody wins in a trade war but we know who loses the most. Workers and families carry the can in the form of increased prices, threats to jobs and livelihoods and hits to their incomes. Trade wars are not good for the prosperity of ordinary people. That is the reality but this is the prospect we now face. It is unprecedented to use blanket tariffs to force broader trade and foreign policy objectives. US blanket tariffs are an unjustified act of economic aggression and they are going to damage the …

"Children were not protected from the risk of harm." That is the line that really sums up the HIQA report into governance failures at Children's Health Ireland, CHI, published this morning. The investigation was commissioned following revelations that non-approved springs were implanted in three children during surgery at Temple Street Hospital. My first thought today is with those children and their families. This report is a damning litany of failure: failure of governance; failure of management; abject failure b…

Dúirt an Taoiseach go bhfuil an méid atá sa tuarascáil dochreidte, ach níl sé seo fíor mar bhí a fhios ag an Rialtas agus bhí a fhios ag na tuismitheoirí an méid a bhí ar siúl i CHI. The Taoiseach said this is incredible. It is certainly shocking and deeply unacceptable but it is not incredible. This was known. Parents knew it. Advocacy groups knew it and raised, again and again, wide-ranging systemic issues around governance, a lack of management and issues around informed consent. Deep ethical concerns were raise…

The Taoiseach has not read the report.

That is not in dispute.

Not agreed.