16. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Taoiseach when the next meeting of the Cabinet committee on health is taking place. [6171/25]
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26. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [7939/25]
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I would like to raise with the Taoiseach one very important and particular aspect of healthcare and that is for trans people. I am sure that he, like me, is concerned about the demonisation and erasure of trans people that is going on worldwide. I am sure the Taoiseach would also agree that trans people have a human right to healthcare. The waiting list is a decade long in this State right now. It has increased by a year. We have the worst trans healthcare in the whole of Europe and it is also getting worse since the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust shutdown. Trans people are being forced to go abroad, go private, or online to access illegal hormones or, rather, the way the they are accessing them is illegal, as well as crowd funding and raising money on Facebook, Instagram and so on. The National Gender Service is the only way to access healthcare for trans people. It asks very invasive questions and does not use an informed consent model which is best practice worldwide. Will the Taoiseach please tell us what he intends to do about the situation facing trans people waiting over ten years for healthcare in this State?
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31. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Taoiseach when the next meeting of the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs is taking place. [6172/25]
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39. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [7940/25]
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I am very concerned about the plight of the Palestinian people, as I am sure we all are, but I am also specifically concerned about Irish citizens who the Taoiseach's Department helped to get out of Gaza. In particular, he may recall Ibrahim Alagha, whose family I am sure the Taoiseach and his Department officials played a role in assisting in November 2023. One of the family members got left behind. He was only 18. He is now 19 and he is marooned and alone in Egypt, in a strange country. He is the brother of Ibrahim and the brother-in-law of Ibrahim's wife. If I can pass this information to his Department, will the Taoiseach assist them in any way? I know he met with them after they returned to Ireland. They are extremely concerned and cannot sleep while worrying about this young person every night. They have applied for family reunification status but it has got clogged up in the system for a number of years, or if could be a number of years unless there is some help from officials from the relevant Departments. Will the Taoiseach look at that situation?
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Yes.
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