Last night, the report of a review in the UK led by Baroness Cumberlege into certain medical treatments, including sodium valproate, was published. In respect of sodium valproate, Baroness Cumberlege said:

I have conducted many reviews and inquiries over the years, but I have never encountered anything like this; the intensity of suffering experienced by so many families, and the fact that they have endured it for decades. Much of this suffering was entirely avoidable...

The Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, gave a 100% commitment that we would have a public inquiry into the effects of sodium valproate. Will he and the Taoiseach keep that promise? Will the Taoiseach agree to allow time at the earliest possible opportunity for a full debate in this Chamber on the sodium valproate issue?

I have not yet read the report to which the Deputy referred but we can, of course, allow time for a substantive debate on this issue. The Chief Whip will engage with the Deputy in this regard. It may not be possible to have the debate in July given all the emergency legislation that has to be got through to facilitate the economic recovery and so on. However, that report and the wider issue certainly needs very detailed consideration because it has created a lot of suffering and undue trauma for many people.