In September of last year Antoinette Burke confronted Taoiseach Micheál Martin on his way in to a Fianna Fáil think-in at the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork. AdvertisementBurke told the Taoiseach that her daughter Katie Byrne had been waiting for surgery for 15 years. When she was six years old, her family fundraised €60,000 to pay for surgery at a children’s hospital in the US. The way I phrase it probably isn’t the way I should phrase it but I am getting new legs. The HSE has agreed to fund my surgery entirely as well as my physiotherapy before and after.