Nobody has a problem with it.

I am happy; I accept that-----

-----but not the new one.

It feels that we have a parallel Leaders' Questions here because we put a question forward and a parallel question is answered. The Taoiseach is hiding behind the issue of patient safety when it comes to Navan's accident and emergency department. However, this is the HSE that created a warzone in University Hospital Limerick by closing the accident and emergency departments in Nenagh and Ennis. This is the HSE that has presided over the increase in adverse incidents in this country from 79,000 in 2017 to 105,000 la…

They just wait in the other hospital.

It is the result of the HSE trying to close it. Why would one try to get a job in a place that is going to close?

It is not trolleys and it is not on waiting lists.

When the then Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, offered free CervicalCheck screening, after the CervicalCheck scandal broke, 4,088 women received inaccurate test results or experienced delays in the issuing of letters as the result of an IT glitch at Quest Diagnostics. This week, three years and three months after the recommendation was made by the MacCraith report, the HSE has confirmed to RTÉ that conversations are ongoing with a small number of women as part of this continuing care. What does this mean? I have…

Yes, the MacCraith report recommended that there would be communication with the 4,088 women who were affected by the glitch, but many were not contacted and we do not know what is happening there, three and a half years later. The Tánaiste did say the Minister for Health would come back to me but he never came back to me.

I was in Westminster a couple of weeks ago with the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. Westminster is pushing ahead with its Troubles legacy Bill, which will give amnesty for the murder of Irish people. Before the Taoiseach leaves office, will he say to the British Government that the Irish Government will take it to the European Court of Human Rights if it proceeds with that Bill? I was also in Washington with the Good Friday Agreement committee, speaking to senators and congressme…

It is moving ahead.

It will be an empty anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement if there is no Executive in place.

Freudian slip.

The HSE has confirmed there will be an ambulance bypass of Our Lady’s Hospital in Navan and it will start on 12 December. It stated this is the first step in a two-step process to close the accident and emergency department in Navan and the second step will take place at the start of the new year. It is a scandal that this would happen in the middle of a winter surge, when hundreds of thousands of people have been on trolleys in this State over the past year, when we are out the door in terms of pressure in Navan a…

The absence of investment is causing it.

The clinicians in Drogheda have said they oppose it.

I welcome Sinn Féin's motion and thank them for taking the lead from Aontú, which raised this issue last May and again on 17 November. The State right now is involved in highway robbery across this country. It is an incredible situation that it is shaking down commuters who are living in commuter hell at the moment right around the State. Families are hammered with the cost of living and are finding it difficult to pay for cars, to get them fixed and to pay for fuel. Moreover, nearly 50% of the cost of the fuel tha…

In July 2019, a very brave woman by the name of Sharon Butler Hughes blew the whistle on the fact that 4,088 women had received either the wrong letters or no results from CervicalCheck with regard to their smear tests. Brian McCracken investigated the matter and recommended that an examination be made into whether these women were negatively affected by the delays in terms of their health outcomes. We have no evidence that this has happened to date. Will the Tánaiste tell the House what is happening? The HSE has n…

It is absolutely incredible to hear of these types of abuse cases again. It is 30 years since the country was rocked by case after case of clerical abuse that came to light in such a devastating way for the victims. It is incredible that each decade that has passed since then, we have seen a repeat of such cases. Survivors of what happened in Blackrock and Spiritans schools have displayed enormous courage in coming forward and shedding light on these horrendous crimes. I give the solidarity and support of my party …

I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Táim brodúil as an mBille seo a chur os comhair na Dála inniu. Is Bille tábhachtach é. I am delighted to present Aontú's Dog Breeding Establishments (Amendment) Bill 2021, or the puppy farm Bill, on Second Stage. This Bill is the second animal welfare Bill Aontú has introduced in this Dáil. The first was the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) (Amendment) (Pets) Bill 2021, which was introduced by Aontú at the end of 2020 to create a minimum ten-month prison…