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@katrionaos @SimonHarrisTD That's good to hear. Hopefully he can pass it on to someone who has not so. It will be interesting to see if the learning from reading it will translate into proper investment in early intervention and preventative services as opposed to the cut backs you described in your book

@BreffBruff @SimonHarrisTD He has read it! I met him and quizzed him and he has!!

Just gave a canvasser for @SimonHarrisTD my copy of the wonderfully insightful book Poor by @katrionaos in the hopes that the Taoiseach might read it 🤞

Bray Women’s Health Centre funding to be cut...absolutely retrograde step and it must be reversed 👇 Crisis pregnancy service running in constituency of Simon Harris and Stephen Donnelly to shut due to HSE funding cut independent.ie/irish-news/hea…

Gideon Levy: a voice of reason. Speaking truth to power. Someone who has lived and grown in Israel, and still sees its true intentions and crimes against the Palestinian people. We need more of these voices to rise up and be heard🕊️✨🕊️

If you listen to anything today let it be this. I had the pleasure of speaking and having individual meetings with @francesca.albanese two years ago. In her capacity as Special Rapporteur. Everything you, we, are seeing through our screen is 100% her; honest, emphatic, fierce, moral and a staunch supporter for human rights everywhere. All of this answer needs to be heard around the world. All of it: "Israel has conducted an attack, an unprecedented attack....now especially after the Knesset passed a law outlawing Unrwa... This is the nail in the coffin of the UN charter." As someone whose career is dedicated to diplomacy, and has worked for and with the UN. I could not agree more with her words.

After a horrific Russian attack on a train station in Ukraine, the Tánaiste tweeted “This is genocide” But he’s not once described the slaughter in Gaza in the same way This is a blatant double standard The govt must listen to the people & enact the Occupied Territories Bill

I am hosting a public meeting on making observations on planning proposals next week with @CllrCat . Cllr Cat O’Driscoll is chair of the Dublin City Council Planning & Urban Regeneration SPC. Join us on Zoom next Tuesday at 8.30pm. Register here ➡️us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns said passing the bill could be “a fitting end to this Dáil term and send a powerful message of solidarity to the Palestinian people”. breakingnews.ie/ireland/opposi… via @breakingnewsie

The @SocDems have offered to give up Dáil time next week to allow for the passing of the Occupied Territories Bill. Govt have blocked this important legislation for years. They now have a chance to do the right thing. @HollyCairnsTD socialdemocrats.ie/cairns-urges-g…

Never forget it was blokes in suits #HowIrelandWorks #DerelictIreland

The last few weeks in politics has been v polarised. You were seen to either be on the side of Govt or on the side of SF. But it isn't an either/or situation. The reality is that we all should have just been on the side of children. irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/1…

Last night, just 19 TDs voted against providing nearly €20 million for the greyhound industry. Why does the Govt - and most of the Opposition - continue to prop up a cruel industry in terminal decline? @HollyCairnsTD

We can’t get away,” said one respondent. “If they are your carer and partner, you are completely at their mercy.”  Abusive partners of disabled women ‘masquerading as carers’ and weaponising disability #AdultSafeguarding

Dept of Finance report highlights the extent to which investment funds are hoovering up new apartments. Just 7% of new apartments are being sold to individuals and families. We should be building homes for people – not investment funds. @OCallaghanCian socialdemocrats.ie/just-7-of-new-…

The @socdems have a paved a path to #PublicChildcare. In Govt, we would - Cap monthly fees @€250, - ⁠Invest €100m pa to build/buy 80 new settings per year, - National Childcare Agency would plan and run settings, - ⁠Develop a public pay grade & benefits system for staff

Would love to hit 5000 signatures on this petition to expand the Glen of the Downs..please sign and share 👇change.org/double_Glen_of…

This is such an important reform. The childcare situation in Ireland is ridiculous- it puts huge pressure on families and can often become a poverty trap for those who simply can’t afford it and therefore can’t progress in their career or education.

This little girl's story is unimaginable but there are so many more like it. Heartbreaking. How can anyone standover delaying the #OccupiedTerritoriesBill. Its shameful. The history books and our children will rightly judge us asking how we could stand by, watch and do nothing

A message from Irish Healthcare workers for Palestine to Dr Hossam Abu Safiya at Kamal Adwan hospital #kamaladwan #savenortherngaza #GazaGenocide @RTENewsPaulC @MichealLehane @colmanos @gavreilly @newschambers @SarahAMcInerney @joemagraollaigh @FergalBowers @ipsc48

This panel is actually very representative of whose needs are continually met by Government policy