This is crazy- there’s a cut to HSE capital plan this year
Rising population, more complexity of care & yet less money going into hospital beds, equipment and IT
Dept of Health’s own bed plan says it needs to build 2,900 by 2031
But plans only 143 new beds this year 🙄
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Join on International Women's Day and take a stand for the future of maternity care ♀️✊🏻
The future of the Rotunda belongs in the North Inner City.
The refusal of the critical care wing is an enormous setback & must go ahead. The world's oldest maternity hospital must remain in the heart of Dublin.
Huge credit to Gavin Godfrey speaking so powerfully today about his CAMHS North Kerry experience on @rteradio1.bsky.social with Cormac HEadhra.
If there is a State apology, it has to mean something
Review started in 2022 yet there’s still no full time perm psychiatrist on the ground in North Kerry
“She lost everything”
Harrowing listening to @paschalsheehy.bsky.social interview with Mary on how her daughter lost the most precious years of her life to mistreatment by CAMHS North Kerry.
On the other hand, I have GP’s telling me they won’t refer to CAMHS such is the waiting list black hole
Also very irritating to see An Coimisiún Pleanala reference 20 year old defunct co-location policy with Connolly hospital Blanchardstown.
That isn’t happening.
Rotunda works very closely with the Mater now and that will grow even further
Very disappointed to see the Rotunda refused planning permission for its critical care wing
Dublin City needs to protect our great Georgian architecture AND provide much needed services
Important to say the Hospital was there first in what is now Parnell square before the houses were ever built!
📻️ Labour's health spokesperson @mariesherlock.bsky.social will join Drivetime this evening on the latest revelations about Children's Health Ireland.
🕔️ Tune into RTÉ Radio One from 5pm.
Exporting our most vulnerable to UK
& condemning mentally ill people to remand prison is unconscionable
It is a state scandal & literally a matter of life or death
Minister for Health needs to come to Dáil tmrw to set out immediate changes
Huge credit to Conor Ryan & @rteprimetime.bsky.social
Alarming figures released to me about wait lists in critical children's developmental services.
Weeks and months matter in a child's life and yet we have tens of thousands of children being failed here.
It is critical now that we ramp up training places and create additional assistant grades 👇
Make social media platforms criminally accountable for sex abuse images that they allow to be posted.
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“I want to express my deepest condolences to the family, friends and loved ones of the individual who passed away in this tragic incident on North Earl Street this afternoon. My thoughts are with those who were injured in this awful incident, their loved ones who are anxiously awaiting news, and express my sincere wishes for their recovery. I am thinking too of those who have witnessed this distressing incident. “I want to thank sincerely and send my solidarity to the members of An Garda Síochána, Dublin Fire Brigade, the ambulance service, our local hospitals, and all first responders who responded to this incident. “Thousands of people from all walks of life travel along this street every day to move across our city. That this street has become the scene of such a tragedy is devastating. “I ask that people follow Dublin Fire Brigade’s request to avoid sharing images of the scene.
I want to express my deepest condolences to the family of the individual who passed away this afternoon in this tragic incident on North Earl Street this afternoon.
My thoughts are with those who were injured in this awful incident and express my sincere wishes for their recovery.
We are hearing of a devastating incident involving a bus and pedestrians on North Earl street.
Thinking of all those caught up in this and all those waiting for anxious news of their loved ones.
Solidarity to @dubfirebrigade.bsky.social and Gardaí attending to the incident.
You couldn’t make this up
To become trainee Garda you need to do a beep test &run an obstacle course
But no background check on suitability to police our country?
What if someone fails the vetting?huge waste of public money
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Hi Ed. Absolutely not! We very much recognise that many use them to commute to work or college or just to get about. I reference in the op-ed illegal and dangerous use - those that do not meet new legal regulations in relation to speed, wattage, and their use by under 16s.
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Scramblers and E-Scooters: Labour's Marie Sherlock says the Government has dragged its heels on this issue for too long, leaving Gardaí without the tools they need to tackle it.
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We know there is no silver bullet but there are lots more things that could be done.
Grace’s legacy must be safer roads.
- we need special policing unit tasked with reckless use and confiscation of illegal scramblers and scooters
- retailers- we believe some are selling above legal speed limit
This is the nightmare we have all been fearing and waiting for.
My heart goes out to the family and friends of Grace Lynch on their devastating loss.
For years now, almost every meeting with Gardaí involves the lawlessness on our roads with scramblers and scooters
www.rte.ie/news/2026/01...
These CHI failures in HR and IT are shockingly basic 👇
And yet we expect that within 12 months, CHI can merge and move 4000 staff into a new building and make dramatic move from paper to electronic records.
Very serious concerns here
www.irishtimes.com/health/2026/...
HSE inconsistency here 🤔
Master of Rotunda on RTÉ today -she hasn’t signed up to public only consultant contract (all private activity was supposed to end by 2025)
Yet HSE is going after 4 hospitals (St Johns, National Orthopaedic, Royal Donnybrook & Peamount) because CEO pay above agreed levels
via @oireachtasnews.bsky.social
@mariesherlock.bsky.social asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism & Employment his plans for a policy of leave for those who experience early #PregnancyLoss
Response: www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/q...
#PLRG_PLACESproject #Workplace
@ibike.ie @dublincycling.bsky.social @irishtimes.com @dublininquirer.com
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This is shocking loose, crude talk - something we expect the judiciary to be above
I’m gutted for all cyclists out there-we need more cycling for a safer calmer faster moving city
Judge O’ Donohoe should retract
If not, I think the Judicial Council must intervene
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
This budget has failed to prioritise people with disabilities, childcare, the thousands of children who are homeless, and the hundreds of thousands of people on hospital waiting lists.
📺 I will deliver our #Budget2026 response with
Ged Nash shortly 👇
oireachtas.ie/en/oireachta...
What is happening in the Arts?
Great that the Basic income will be retained and expanded.
But who is losing out?
There is a cut to current funding to arts and culture spending.
This is real backward step. #budget2026
📣 Childcare! Remember all those election promises!
None here today.
More places ❌
Fees to reduce to €200 per month ❌
And the “Building Blocks” scheme to create more places- not a single € paid out. It was supposed to be done last March. Will be lucky to have it next September. #budget2026
Spot on👇
There are small few stations who are trying- RTÉ, Cork’s Red fm, Midwest
But they are far too many who don’t
Working with the brilliant Linda Coogan Byrne of WhyNotHer we produced legislation in 2022 to ensure gender diversity in broadcasting.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
State spends €36m on brand new 100 bed building
But no money to open almost half the beds🙄
128 homeless persons died in 2021- vast majority had substance abuse history. Most of the deaths- preventable.
I raised it in Dáil on Wed.
This saves lives👇
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We just don’t join the dots here in this country
📍25% delay visiting GP cause of costs
📍GP shortages mean some can’t get GP,others wait ages for appointment
And then INMO trolley figures today showed worst Feb on record..since 2004
We need more 🛌 &more👩⚕️ but lack of primary care is also reason
Meta is playing with people’s lives and democracy here.
For years, they argued content moderators were the great defence against the worst impacts of their recommender systems.
This sets Meta on collision course with EU’s digital services act.
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