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Thursday January 01 1970

Eamon Gilmore On Healthcare and Education

category dublin | miscellaneous | event notice author Sunday March 30, 2008 13:43author by UCD Labour - Labour Youthauthor email ucd at votelabour dot ie

Leader of the Labour Party to address UCD Labour branch.

Eamon Gilmore will be in UCD giving a talk followed by questions on Healthcare and Education in Ireland.

The event takes place in UCD's arts block in Theatre O at 6pm

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Despite our country's affluence access to life-saving health care is becoming more based on a person's ability to pay. Our health service is lurching from one crisis to another and bearing the brunt of it all are patients and health care staff.

Women have been let down by cancer screening services, promised medical cards have not been delivered, our A&E departments going from bad to worse. Now we are seeing a further widening in the two-tier health service with the Government's plan to co-locate private hospitals on the grounds of public hospitals.

In education, we have seen a failure to provide adequate capitation grants for primary schools, the abandoning of the election promise to reduce class sizes, the axing of the summer grant scheme of special and emergency repairs and the long fingering of many school extension programmes.

Eamon will address these issues in the open, public debate.



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