The Minister for Education’s admission in the Daíl that Mount Temple doesn’t have high priority and is caught up in a backlogged pipeline is a bitter disappointment. This Minister has been totally incompetent in processing building applications: while other Minister’s have signed up projects for 75% of their capital budgets, this Minister for Education and Science has only signed up 30% of his. The result is that the April 7th Budget could see €620m of School Building Projects wiped out. Committed staff and parents work hard to develop their schools and they are met by incompetence in this Department.

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The total number of people waiting at Northside Hospitals for operations increased by 345 (up 9%) while on the Southside the number waiting dramatically improved, down 1522 (or 25%). These figures were released by the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF). Read the full story

Following the publication of the most recent hygiene report, Cappagh Hospital must be congratulated for the tremendous improvements it has made to hospital hygiene in the last year. It is now ranked as the cleanest hospital in Ireland, and is the only one to be rated “very good”.

North Side hospitals can feel justifiable proud of the improvements they have made in hospital hygiene: Read the full story