"Instead of committing €630 million to untargeted VAT reduction measures, Government must commit to solving our child poverty and homelessness crisis, and the improvement of public services and a reduction in waiting lists for disability and health services." - Ged Nash TD

"I have been accused of being ideological for pushing for better provision for working and low-income families. To that I say a tax cutting agenda absent of meaningful supports for struggling households, is fundamentally ideological too." @ivanabacik.bsky.social

"The gap between those who have and those who have not is widening every single day. You boast about “full employment.” But what good is a job when people need two of them, just to keep the lights on?" - Rob O'Donoghue TD

"Young workers are in constant contact with me to raise the fact, that they have simply been priced out of the housing market. When do you decide you’ve got it wrong, that you don’t have the answers, because the evidence is in the figures." @duncansmithtd.bsky.social

"The Government have choices. The cost of living is chronic, I've never seen it this bad. The Hot School Meals programme has been rolled out across primary schools but remains unavailable to far too many children" - Alan Kelly TD

"This government can introduce an immediate ban on Child Evictions. I'm coming across harrowing stories because of the failure of this Government" @mariesherlock.bsky.social

"Government is spending their time drafting a budget to give tax reductions to the food and catering industry, while mothers and fathers are struggling to put food on the table. The priorities of our state are totally skewed."
- Eoghan Kenny TD

"With over 5,000 children in homelessness, we need stop managing this crisis and start solving it. We need a ban on the eviction of children into homelessness, and legislation to prioritise the housing needs of homeless families." @georgelawlor.bsky.social

"Our motion is also about ensuring older persons have a voice.

It is about ensuring they have dignity.

We cannot allow for people to suffer indignity or abuse in old age.

We certainly cannot allow for our systems to accept failings as endemic." @ivanabacik.bsky.social

"We know public nursing homes have higher staffing levels, lower turnover of staff and are generally
better run.

HIQA is failing people.

It is nothing but a report writing boxing ticking entity with no real power of
sanction." @conorsheehan.bsky.social

"The public has lost trust in the care system, we need to build a care system that truly values the dignity of every person." - Rob O'Donoghue

"We’re now into the third successive Fine Gael government that has committed to statute-based home care – are they hoping for third-time lucky?

Getting a statutory right to home and community-based care and statutory regulation of the sector, requires urgency." @ciaranahern.bsky.social

"We have a real problem when it comes to managing nursing home care in this country.

We need a complete reboot.

We need a massive public investment in public nursing homes." - Alan Kelly TD

"Government must provide HIQA with stronger enforcement powers.
HIQA will have to come in unannounced. See for themselves what the reality is." - Eoghan Kenny TD

"How is it that we can have 198 abuse reports at Benavin Manor in Dublin and 40 reports at The Residence in Portlaoise and it takes the work of an RTE Investigative team before we are talking about it here on the floor of Leinster House?" @georgelawlor.bsky.social

"In childcare, the State provides money to private businesses on the condition that staff’s pay and conditions improve.

If the Fair Deal is enhanced, this condition should also be applied to the nursing home sector." - Ged Nash TD

"Twenty years on from the Leas Cross scandal, RTÉ journalism has once again exposed distressing and unacceptable standards in private Irish nursing homes.

Back then, 30% of homes were privately run — today, it’s nearly 80%." - Mark Wall TD