Recent polls are promising but the party has big decisions to make on three key questions
Róisín Shortall
One in five smaller private homes closed in two-year period, as private equity funded hubs take larger chunk of market
Question arises as Labour leader Ivana Bacik says merger is ‘possible’
Róisín Shortall says opening of first elective hospital on existing hospital grounds will take at least 10 years
Tensions have bubbled up inside - and outside - Government and among senior civil servants in the fallout from a new budget that did not budget for massive health spending overruns
HSE chief said last week the health allocation was ‘not adequate for all current costs’
Budget allocation will have ‘catastrophic implications’ for patients and those who work on the front line of health service, says Sinn Féin
Stephen Donnelly denies that defeat of Opposition amendment will delay ban on sale of vapes to children
There was far less interest in the minutiae of Sinn Féin’s budget proposals from other parties, who may have had coalition in mind
The party also said it would spend an additional €1.1 billion on housing while it would take much of the surplus of corporation tax receipts to deal with energy costs and fund a ‘climate transformation’
Health committee also hears of plans to set up new medical school in capital operated by TU Dublin which is being looked at ‘very favourably’
Government to push ahead with new refugee accommodation centres in Santry, Clondalkin and Dún Laoghaire
Government to place people who have arrived into the country at an industrial premises, a former college and a converted office building
Ministers urged to compel release of reports setting out costs of company’s administration
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