Counselling services will be provided to a variety of primary schools in Dublin 7. The scheme will see the introduction of wellbeing practitioners, who will work under the supervision of National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) psychologists. Covid-19 had a significant impact on primary school-aged children and this service is designed to help those young students…
Category: Health
Dr Kathleen Lynn
Mary’s motion to name the new National Children’s Hospital after Dr Kathleen Lynn was passed unanimously in the Seanad. The motion received cross party support and it was not opposed by the government. Mary’s motion recognised Dr Kathleen Lynn’s contribution to women and children’s healthcare and called on the government to name the new National…
Spring Newsletter
Please find below Mary’s latest newsletter. In this newsletter, Mary has provided information on a diverse range of topics including updates on the regeneration of Dalymount Park, government initiatives focused on increasing housing supply and fostering home ownership, essential women’s healthcare services, cost of living supports, and much more. If you have any questions please…
Dr Kathleen Lynn
Mary has now secured the support of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health following Mary’s letter to the chair of the committee, Sean Crowe TD. The campaign also has the support of Fianna Fáil, Labour, Sinn Féin, the Green Party, Fórsa, SIPTU and the National Women’s Council of Ireland. By naming the new National Children’s…
New Wing at the Mater
A new emergency, intensive care and isolation building has opened at the Mater Hospital. The Rock Wing, named after Sister Margherita Rock, was designed and built in two years. It has 98 beds, including 16 new ICU beds and will be home to a new National Isolation Unit. The Rock wing will allow the Mater…
Dr Kathleen Lynn
This month we will commemorate the 1916 Easter Rising. Mary will speak at the 1916 Relatives Association commemoration Easter Rising Commemoration at 11:30, this Saturday, April 8, at the Garden of Remembrance. The Proclamation of the Irish Republic declared the values of “cherishing all the children of the nation equally”. Dr Kathleen Lynn, as a…
Affordable Healthcare
Mary believes in a public health service which provides everyone with access to high-quality and affordable care when they need it. Fianna Fáil has introduced several measures which have delivered fundamental public health services to the highest standard through investment, innovation and reform. Recently legislation was passed which has abolished public inpatient hospital charges. This…
Neurological Rehabilitation
Mary supports Neurological Alliance Ireland’s campaign ‘Patients Deserve Better’. All nine CHO areas must be delivered which offers critical support for patients by providing them with improved physical and psychological wellbeing along with greater independence Mary recently visited An Saol’s Neurological Rehabilitation Day Centre with Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin North-West, Paul McAulliffe. An Saol…
Dr Kathleen Lynn
Mary hosted the launch of the 1916 Relatives Association’s campaign to have the new National Children’s Hospital named after Dr Kathleen Lynn. Speakers included author Martina Devlin, actress Kate O’Toole, Councillors Niall Ring & Mannix Flynn, Deputy General Secretary of SIPTU Ethel Buckley and Assistant General Secretary of Fórsa, Lisa Connell. Naming the National Children’s…
Dr Kathleen Lynn
Mary has secured the unanimous support of the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party to name the new National Children’s Hospital after Dr Kathleen Lynn. Having founded Ireland’s first children’s hospital, Dr Kathleen Lynn deserves to have the new National Children’s Hospital named after her. Naming the hospital after such an inspiring woman will be the first…