Next year must see a “reset” of relations between the State and the country’s voluntary hospitals, which receive several billion euro collectively from the exchequer to treat public patients but are run by their own boards, Minister for Health Jennifer Ca... See more
Political advisers and staff in the Department of the Taoiseach received close to €500,000 in total in redundancy and severance payments when they had to leave their jobs following the resignation of Leo Varadkar last year.
Figures set out in the 2024 App... See more
A planned new security force aimed at deterring and tackling violence and antisocial behaviour on buses and trains would be “a toothless tiger”, transport workers have told the Government. In a letter to Minister for Justice Jim 0’Callaghan on December 23... See more
Expectant mothers face increasing restrictions on accessing private maternity services from next week as new rules that aim to eliminate fee-paying medicine in public hospitals come fully into effect. From the beginning of January, about two thirds of the... See more
It is now nearly nine years since the publication of the Sláintecare reform plans which included proposals that State-funded hospitals should be for public patients only. Private medicine, the report urged, should be phased out. From the beginning of Janu... See more
