Thursday's business shall be: - Statements on Science Week (not to exceed 2 hours and 25 minutes) Thursday's Private Members' business shall be the Second Stage of the Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Reduction of Voting Age to Sixteen Years) Bill 2025, selected by Social Democrats. Under Standing Order 35(3), I propose an amendment to the Order of Business, that the Minister for Health come before the Dáil to make a comprehensive statement and take questions on the case of nine-year-old Harvey Morrison Sherratt, who died last July and who was in need of and belatedly received surgery but whom we now know was removed from the surgical wait list despite having being deemed fit for surgery.
In response to Deputy McDonald, under Standing Order 35(3) and as the Taoiseach said earlier, the Minister met Harvey's parents this afternoon with the Tánaiste, Simon Harris.
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Tellers: Tá, Deputies Mary Butler and Emer Currie; Níl, Deputies Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Sinéad Gibney.
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