Risks to patients not ‘fully managed’ at UHL is no surprise but still shocking. Tomorrow ⁦Maurice Quinlivan TD⁩ and I will launch a plan for the Mid West. We need 288 additional beds at UHL, a lifting of the recruitment embargo & investment in local services rte.ie/news/2024/0502…

.Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach today to end the dangerous health recruitment embargo. He refused asking ‘where does it stop’. It stops at safely staffed hospitals and local health services. It stops at delivering better health care. People deserve better.

The Minister and the Government need to lift the recruitment embargo, build the beds needed and provide additional care in the community. The mid-west region needs a health plan not more window dressing. rte.ie/news/regional/…

The Taoiseach refuses to correct the Dáil record when asked to do so by David Cullinane T.D.

FactCheck: Did Sinn Féin really propose spending €500m less on health than the Government?

The claim was made by Taoiseach Simon Harris last week in the Dáil.

#Scoliosis #Dáil

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Paddy’s Curve is over 100°

Where is the new spinal management team in this ?

Where is the end to end funding for children who wish to travel abroad for care ?

Where is the acting CEO CHI leadership ?

Where is Stephen Donnelly ???

Simon Harris TD

Fact Check: ‘We therefore rate Fine Gael’s claim as FALSE’

Government’s spin is exposed again. Simon Harris attempts to deflect from broken promises, trolley counts, and waiting lists by attacking Sinn Féin are proven FALSE!

It’s time for change!

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Change starts here! 🇮🇪🗳️

We’re gathered in Dublin today for our local and European election launch. Our candidates are energised and ready to stand up for communities right across our island.

Vótáil Sinn Féin on June 7th

#timeforchange

Simon Harris is all spin over substance. He doesn’t want to talk about his promise to children with scoliosis or patients on hospital trollies or the disastrous recruitment embargo. Sinn Féin will keep our focus on what matters - delivering better health services

'We therefore rate Fine Gael’s claim as FALSE.' Govt spin exposed again. Attempt to deflect from trolley counts, waiting lists, cancelled appointments.

FactCheck: Did Sinn Féin really propose spending €500m less on health than the Government?
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I’m sad. Turning off social media for a while; too upset about stuff this week and how my home town will take months to recover from the fires and the hate. A lot of community work needed. Incumbent on all parties & people to work hard on the ground there to make things better.

'We may not need more of our own beds as we send young people with eating disorders abroad for treatment' . What a heartless approach which suits the system & not the citizens. Not a good week for Fianna Fáil on health. rte.ie/news/primetime…

I do not support any political party.

Our oncology dayward is currently 5 nurses understaffed. We cannot hire new nurses because of the embargo. We need new nurses.

This has not hit the headlines, because the nurses in our dayward are excellent, and have excellent leadership…

100,000 children are not getting the required dental treatment because of a 'ludicrous' recruitment embargo imposed by the government, according to the Sinn Féin finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty

The continuous reannouncement by Harris of same student beds is unhelpful

UCD beds 1st announced 2018
•paused in November 2022
•re-announced in June 2023
•re-announced in January 2024
•and now again in April 2024

Harris reannouncement politics shows no signs of stopping

The HSE recruitment embargo has real health consequences. Over 100,000 children denied dental screening services. Medical card patients are also denied access to dental care due to the collapse of the Dental Treatment Service Scheme. People deserve better! rte.ie/news/health/20…

Spinal Surgery Scandal

Taoiseach, Liam Dennehy is 13-years-old, just over a year-ago his spine started to shift, on his first x-ray his spine was at 35 degrees by November it was 85 degrees. It was evident then, that he needed surgery urgently - five months later, has he not…

Vulnerable babies not getting specialised intensive care in children’s hospitals, doctor warns

The newborns can be very premature and critically ill, Dr El-Khuffash said.

“Placing these babies in a paediatric intensive care unit instead of a ­neonatal intensive care unit…

Incredible speech.

'The State placed so little or no value on the lives of 48 working class young people whose lives were snuffed out,' she said, and 'that's the cold, hard truth'.

'You don't mess with Dublin mas. You don't mess with Dublin das,' - Mary Lou McDonald

#JFT48

The verdict of unlawful killing by the inquest into the death of their loved ones confirms what survivors, victims’ families & Dubliners have always known of the Stardust fire.

Their families brought the truth home for them and those lost will forever be remembered. Denise Mitchell TD

For forty-three years, the families of the victims of the Stardust fire faced the contempt of the state. Their fight for truth and justice was blocked again and again.

They faced it all and they never gave in.

For the 48 young people who went out to the Stardust and never came…