10 June: The Ditch publishes a story on an unreleased report showing child patients are forced to wait significantly longer than private patients at Children's Health Ireland facilities
11 June: Paul Murphy raises the story in the Dáil, saying, "That’s pretty much across the board in terms of a massive discrepancy of waiting time in public versus waiting time for private"
15 June: The HSE is forced to publish the report – which it had refused to do before The Ditch story and Murphy's intervention – and RTÉ's Fergal Bowers covers it. "The HSE added that the review does not identify evidence of inequity in access to care and this is important," he wrote. An RTÉ radio segment with Bowers questions previous interpretations of the leaked report
The report itself:
Full fascism by the British state.
Destroying weaponry being used to commit genocide is an act of humanity not terrorism.
All solitary with the Filton 4 and their families 🇵🇸
“We are Fianna Fáil we are the Republican Party.”
FACTCHECK:
FF got rid of articles 2+3 in Dev’s 1937 constitution, one of the few parts of that document worth a damn. They abandoned the claim to the north.
It will take Government more than 55 years to clear the social housing waiting list – @EOBroin
"The bottom line is that the Government is not delivering anything close to the level of new build social housing to meet existing and emerging demand."
https://t.co/0TYnDHSleu
At a time of multiple and intensifying social and ecological crises, which unaddressed also provide conditions for the growth of the far-right, the EU is investing in arms and defence-tech.
https://t.co/6K1B8dp145
People are dunking on Simon Harris for this comment about Local Authorities not performing.
But they are wrong. He knows what he’s talking about. No one in Irish politics has risen higher and faster, whilst doing the sum total of nothing, than he has.
The government cynically used the end of the UN mandate for Operation Irini to attack the Triple Lock.
The stakes could not be higher and they are deliberately misleading the Irish public.
Essential reading from @DondeNiamh
https://t.co/cAHB8hixaW
SERIOUS concerns have been raised over several internal Children's Health Ireland (#CHI) emails discussing a €30,000 donation to fund its staff Christmas party in 2022. -@muirisoc
Members of the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee (#PAC) said the emails appear to show a #CHI staff member 'covering their behind' and 'flxing the books' after accepting the inappropriate donation.
#HowIrelandWorks #PublicInquiryCHi
@irishdailymail
Can anybody explain to me, like, I'm five, why are we (Ireland) borrowing money to put money in the rainy day fund,if we don't have money to save, how can we have money to repay the loan for the money we are saving
Internal report confirms public child patients forced to wait for surgery – private patients prioritised -@OMeiscill
With one urology consultant, public patients have waited almost a year longer for surgery than those with private health insurance. Some children have waited an average of more than six months longer for time-sensitive spinal surgery because they were not privately covered.
“Like private care in maternity hospitals,” said People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy [@paulmurphy_TD], “it should have no place in our health system,” about the report examining healthcare at Children’s Health Ireland (#CHI) facilities.
#PublicInquiryCHi #LucyNugent
https://t.co/GIsShCxq7n
One in seven families now in arrears averaging €511 on electricity bills, says regulator
Suppliers have announced plans to increase charges by up to 11 per cent from July after months of volatile global oil and gas prices spurred by the US-Israeli conflict with Iran.
“All that households have gotten is the axing of the energy credits and the establishment of a Government taskforce to come up with proposals. Where is the urgency?” she [@LNBDublin]
asked.
#Electricity #CostofLivingCrisis
https://t.co/bWhIfXPsjm