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Here you can find some of the major issues I’ve been working on in national politics and in my role as Labour Spokesperson on Health
Heartless refusal of Government to consider new long covid scheme
159 healthcare workers with long-covid will be abandoned as workers lose full pay due to winding down of special scheme on the 31st of December. Ireland among small number of EU countries to have not recognised Covid-19 as an occupational …
Poor Forecasting and No Plan on Agency Staff Glaringly Obvious in Dept of Health Supplementary Budget
Poor forecasting and budgeting record of Department across elder care in the community, nursing homes and primary care. Home care support budget was one million home care support hours off budget. Department has no real plan to …
Glaring absence of HSE plan to deal with horrendously long primary care psychology waiting lists
Labour’s Health Spokesperson Marie Sherlock TD has said the HSE needs to bring forward immediately an action plan to resolve the horrendously long primary care psychology waiting lists. Describing the system of psychology supports in …
Government must answer if they will support decriminalisation
Labour’s Health Spokesperson Marie Sherlock TD has called on the Government to answer whether it will support decriminalisation of people who use drugs. Deputy Sherlock was speaking following Labour’s motion to decriminalise people who …
Labour calls for health-led drugs policy
Labour’s Health Spokesperson Marie Sherlock TD has announced that the Labour Party will use its Private Members’ Time in the Dáil this week to call for the decriminalisation of drug users and for the creation of a compassionate, …
Endometriosis Replacement Treatment abroad scheme is being set up to fail
Concerns regarding endometriosis sufferers’ ability to travel abroad. No reference to the hospitals and clinics that women are travelling to in Greece and Romania in the new scheme. New conditions placed on post operative care are …
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