Opposition leader highlights ‘dangerous’ recruitment embargo and chaos faced by staff at the hospital on a daily basis
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Taoiseach tells Dáil that he is exploring issue and if legal, then law needs to be changed
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Families will be contacted over supports such as counselling and what form a national commemoration should take, says Simon Harris
Focus for the Stardust families now turns to accountability as they welcome the belated State apology
‘The institutions of this State failed you,’ Taoiseach Simon Harris says to families of the 48 people unlawfully killed in Stardust fire
This was not a test of his decision-making – it was a test of his ability to perform as Taoiseach
Addressing the families in the Visitors’ Gallery, the Taoiseach apologised for the successive rebuffs and humiliations visited on them
Forty-three years after fire that killed 48 people, Harris says victims, survivors, relatives suffered ‘a cold shoulder, a deaf ear and two generations of struggle for justice’
Families of 48 young people who died in 1981 fire had long called for an official State apology and were invited to the Dáil on Tuesday
Parental groups alliance met with politicians to call for actions to ‘try to stop these repeated deaths and injuries in Irish hospitals’
Taoiseach Simon Harris issued apology in the Dáil on Tuesday, as those most affected by February 1981 tragedy looked on
Taoiseach visited site of the 1981 fire on eve of statement to Dáil which he said ‘I really hope can help aid the healing process’
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