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Family fun day71 giorni fa
 
Hi everyone,
Our Campaign are running a awareness day filled with fun things for children, we will be having bouncy castle, face painting, magic show the q102 blue crew will be there to hand out goodie bags to all the children.
We want to highlight the continuing suffering cutbacks at Our Ladys Hospital is having on children and there family's. So support us on the day while the kids have a ball.
This event will take Place on the 10th of October in Bunting Park Walkinstown between the hours of 12pm and 4pm.

So agai come along support a good and worth cause, entry is free as are all activities for the children sure you never know we might just have something for you parents also.

Teresa Shallow

Founder
Save Our Lady's Children's Hospital Campaign
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OECD Report confirms State’s failure of young children – Ó Caoláin82 giorni fa
 
September 2, 2009

Sinn Féin Dáil leader and spokesperson on Children Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD has said that the OECD’s first ever report on the well being of children in its 30 member countries confirms that successive Governments have failed younger children, with this State among the bottom five for spending on children in their vital younger years.

Deputy Ó Caoláin said:

“It is a cause of shame that the wealth of the Celtic Tiger years which flowed into State coffers was so badly misused when it should have been invested wisely in providing for greatly improved health, education and social services for children.

“The OECD Report shows that this State is among the five out of 30 OECD countries that spend least on children. It reflects very poorly on the well being of children in this State, especially those who are disadvantaged. This leads to greater problems in later life, including our very high rate of suicide among young men, as highlighted in this report.

“Having under-invested in the welfare of children during the boom we now see the Fianna Fáil/Green Government preparing to slash spending in health and education, increasing class sizes, cutting special needs teachers, withdrawing schemes for disadvantaged pupils such as book grants, restricting medical card entitlements, targeting Child Benefit and much more.

“These cuts will compound the problems for children caused by overcrowded classrooms and inadequate school buildings, lack of accessible childcare, inadequate child protection and over-stretched children’s social care services.

“Investment in children is required to ensure both the rights of all children and real recovery for Ireland beyond the recession.”
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Children lose their home as HSE cuts funding90 giorni fa
 
Published Date: 26 August 2009

By Laura Keys

TWO children have been removed from their home and 18 skilled workers have lost their jobs in the latest round of funding cuts to hit Kilkenny.
The Holy Family Centre on the Callan Road, Kil-kenny, which provides full-time residential care to up to 14 children with learning disabilities, has been shut down after the Health Service Executive (HSE) slashed its funding.

All 18 staff members were placed on protective notice about six weeks ago and were served with red-undancy notices last week.
There were two children being cared for at the centre when the news came through and the last remaining child was removed from the home yesterday (Tuesday).

It is believed one of the children was placed into foster care, while the other has been moved to a different residential care facility.
The children were referred to the centre by the health care services as they couldn't be cared for properly in their own homes for various reasons.

This was the norm until about two years ago, when new referrals were halted due to funding cuts.

SIPTU assistant branch organiser Colleen Minihan said while it was disappointing that so many "very highly skilled workers are coming on to the job market in a glut", the real losers in the situation were the children and families who would be affected.

"We're very disappointed with the situation because the Holy Family Centre provides a vital service and there's always going to be a need for somewhere to look after children with disabilities," she said.

Talks

Ms Minihan said the centre's board of management had been in talks with the HSE in recent months about the possibility of amalgamating the centre with another nearby facility to save money, but these talks had been abandoned.

"There is a huge demand for these services and now the HSE is refusing to fund it," she said.

SIPTU has 15 members at the Holy Family Centre and Ms Minihan said the union had to enter negotiations with the board of management to secure adequate redundancy packages for the staff.
"While the centre is wholly funded by the HSE, the staff are not HSE employees," she explained.

It is believed staff secured packages worth four weeks pay per year of service, plus statutory redundancy and minimum notice.
Staff at the centre who have now been made redundant included a director, 10 full-time and three part-time care staff, one full-time and one part-time housekeeper and a part-time secretary/financial officer.

The centre is managed by a board of directors drawn from the local community including the Ossory Community Services Trust, the HSE, Holy Family Congregation, medical, legal and other professions.

The Holy Family Centre was established by Bishop Peter Birch in 1966 and in 1997, a new purpose-built centre catering for 14 children was created on the site. The building will now be returned to the Diocese of Ossory.


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Thank you96 giorni fa
 
Graiguenamanagh Fire Service would like to thank all those who supported their recent collection for our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin. The total amount collected was €4262. Your generosity is much appreciated.

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Rise in grant refusals for autistic children114 giorni fa
 
By Catherine Shanahan

Monday, August 03, 2009

THE number of parents refused a grant towards the cost of caring for a disabled child has almost tripled since the Department of Social and Family Affairs (DoFSA) took over the scheme from the Health Service Executive (HSE).

New figures show one in five applications were turned down in 2008 when the HSE was administering the scheme. This jumped to six-out-of-10 between April 1 and May 22 this year, after the DoFSA took over.

The Irish Progressive Autism Alliance (IPAA)/Shine Ireland believes changes to the manner in which children are assessed for the Domiciliary Care Allowance has led to higher refusal rates.

When the HSE administered the scheme, children were individually assessed by a HSE medical officer who decided whether they were entitled to the care allowance.

According to Kieran Kennedy, spokesman for the IPAA, the refusal rate was nil among children with autism.

However, since the department took over the onus is on the parent to submit written ‘evidence’ of their child’s disability, which is then assessed by departmental medical assessors. The allowance is now awarded based on a study of this evidence, rather than an examination by the department of the child.

Fine Gael TD Dave Stanton, who raised the matter in an adjournment debate to the Dáil, said there was no question that since the scheme was transferred from the HSE many children who previously would have received the allowance are being refused it.

"This is particularly the case with regard to children suffering from autism and mental disabilities," Mr Stanton said.

Mr Stanton said the higher refusal rates amounted to a "stealth cut" and he called on Social and Family Affairs Minister Mary Hanafin to reinstate the HSE assessment process.

Fianna Fáil Labour Affairs Minister Dara Calleary has written to Ms Hanafin asking her to review the "new arrangements" for awarding the Domiciliary Care Allowance "and the manner in which the medical criteria seem to be excluding children with autism".

A statement from the DoSFA said an expert medical group had decided the most appropriate way for the department to conduct assessments for medical eligibility was by assessing evidence submitted by the claimant rather than by way of individual examination by the department’s medical assessors "as unlike the HSE they are not involved in advice or treatment of the child".






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Michael Jackson for Crumlin116 giorni fa
 
A service to celebrate the life of Michael Jackson will be held at Halston Park, Dublin 7 on Saturday 8th August 09. The party kicks off at 3pm until late. There will be lots of entertainment and all money reaised goes towards the operations of sick children.
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Babies among swine flu victims as virus takes growing toll Doctors move to ease fears 117 giorni fa
 
By Eilish O'Regan Health Correspondent

Friday July 31 2009

Babies under one year old have been among the victims of swine flu here, it emerged last night, as seven people who fell ill with the virus developed serious complications and have had to be treated in hospital.

Two of the seven people are still critically ill and in intensive care. A third person who was in a serious condition has been moved back to a main ward.

Chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan said analysis of the first 217 laboratory-confirmed cases has revealed the average age of the victims is 23.

But he said some of the cases diagnosed countrywide have been babies under the age of one -- though other sufferers have been as old as 73.

Some 19 people have been hospitalised since swine flu hit Ireland, although for most people it is just a mild illness.

"Two out of every three contracted the virus through travel outside Ireland," Dr Holohan told a press briefing yesterday, and it is now spreading more rapidly through Ireland.

Although GPs had seen 1,500 people with suspected swine flu symptoms up to last Sunday, it still amounts to just one case a week and there is no question of people crowding into waiting rooms, he added.

Dr Holohan would not comment on the condition of the two people still in intensive care but said the pattern has been that those who develop severe complications tend to already have an underlying illness.

A 30-year-old Slovakian man who was admitted to St James's Hospital in Dublin on Friday remains in intensive care in a critical condition.

Pregnant

Asked about the findings which show that pregnant women who get swine flu are four times more likely to be hospitalised, Dr Darina O Flanagan, head of the Health Protection Surveillance Centre, said they are regarded as a high-risk group and the recommendation is that they be given the antiviral Tamiflu.

Dr Pat Doorley, head of population health with the HSE, has advised mothers-to-be to contact their GP if they develop symptoms and leave it to the doctor as to how they should be treated.

Meanwhile, asked about the possibility of pregnant women being given priority for vaccination when a vaccine against the flu arrives Dr Holohan said it is only when it is available can that judgment be made, and that they would have to balance risk.

The initial group most likely to get the vaccine when first batches arrive in the autumn include health care workers, certain high risk groups and children.

On the likelihood of the spread of the flu accelerating further, Dr Holohan said the current rate of the virus is 37 per 100,000 population.

He said that it was unclear as to how it would progress and another two weeks are needed to see whether it would worsen or abate

Meanwhile, UCD confirmed yesterday that seven people, most of whom are Italian and Russian language students, are in voluntary quarantine in its accommodation rooms on campus with suspected swine flu.

The youngsters, aged 14 to 17 years, who are here learning English, are under a doctor's care.

Sixty of the students sought medical attention recently for flu-like symptoms and 47 were cleared. Another 10 have yet to be assessed.

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NAMA: Crime of the century – Morgan117 giorni fa
 
July 30, 2009

Giving his initial response to the National Assets Management Agency (NAMA) legislation published today Sinn Féin Finance Spokesperson Arthur Morgan TD charged the government and the banks with perpetrating ‘the crime of the century’. The Louth TD noted that ‘every euro of the ten billion already pumped into Anglo, AIB and Bank of Ireland on top of the astronomical cost of NAMA is a euro being taken out of vital public services such as education, health, job creation and the delivery of critical infrastructure. And the weight of debt on future generations is as yet immeasurable.’

The Louth TD said:

“Fianna Fáil, the banks and property developers are responsible for Ireland’s economic crash, as is the Green Party for its refusal to reign in its government partners, and indeed the party’s role in burdening generations with unprecedented debt and crippling our public finances for who knows how long.

“Despite the banking sectors legacy of reckless lending and the government’s out-of-control property tax relief’s not a single government Minister or banking executive has been held to account. There has public hand wringing and a lot of brazen faces yet in real terms everything has remained the same.

“Fianna Fáil and the Green’s continue to bolster the banks and protect reckless developers who made personal fortunes yet have negatively exposed the economy with their reckless borrowings which in some instances exceed €1 billion euro. And the people are picking up the tab.

“George Bernard Shaw once said ‘a government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support Paul’. This legislation does little to dispel such a charge.

“The legislation gives the Minister unlimited additional powers not set out in the Bill to give NAMA additional functions.

“It gives the Minister sole power to appoint members of NAMA. Sinn Féin believes this should be a cross-party decision.

“Part 5 allows NAMA to make valuations based on long term economic values. It is Sinn Fein’s view that the values should be mark-to-market, not mark-to-book. The legislation does not set out the loan book discount for the taxpayer and this omission shows that the government would rather overpay for these assets rather than take a recapitalised stake in the banks.

“Part 6 relies on the banks to provide NAMA with information about its assets ‘in utmost good faith’. This element of the legislation is either incredibility naive or another example of Fianna Fáil cronyism.

“Hundreds of thousands of families are struggling to make their mortgages with many facing repossession of their homes, and worse is yet to come with banks shamelessly raising interest rates and countless viable SMEs unable to access credit are going to wall. Public services are being cut to the bone and despite soaring unemployment there has been no significant investment by government in a job retention and creation strategy. NAMA may secure the future of bank shareholders but it has auctioned off every child’s future for generations to come.

“Sinn Féin will be holding a national day of action against the NAMA bailout. We will be campaigning in our communities throughout the country for greater investment in education, health, job creation and critical infrastructure and an end to the Fianna Fáil cronyism once and for all.”
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Sinn Féin calls on Government to address high costs of childcare in Dublin117 giorni fa
 
July 30, 2009

Speaking following the release of CSO statistics that childcare costs for parents in the Dublin area are significantly higher than other areas of the state, Sinn Féin Dublin TD Aengus O Snodaigh called for the Government to address their failed childcare policies.

The Dublin South Central TD said;

“A report from the CSO has shown that on average childcare costs in the state outside of Dublin are around €125 per week and they are up to €200 per week for the same service in the capital city – over a 15% increase in two years. This impact’s hugely on both parents, as well as childcare providers who will receive the same payment for children regardless of their location under the new Government scheme of providing a year’s free pre-school for each child. Less than a third of parents in Dublin believe they have access to high-quality, affordable, childcare in their community. This is an unacceptable situation for the Government to leave parents in.

“Representatives of childcare groups have said that many crèches will face closure because rising unemployment means fewer children using services, whilst other parents are working fulltime to merely pay for their childcare costs.

“During the good times, the Government failed to establish a proper childcare infrastructure and now in the bad it intends to withdraw the Early Childcare Supplement, despite a UNICEF report rating Ireland last in a league table of OECD countries in provision of childcare.

“Sinn Féin is committed to establishing a universal state provision of pre-school children from the age of three to five years. The only way the problems of childcare can be solved in this state is if government delivers a universal provision of early childcare and education based on the best international models.”
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Fire Service Annual Charity Collection118 giorni fa
 
The Graignamanagh Fire Service Are Having their Annual Charity Collection on Saturday 1st of August in Graignamanagh. This year we are collecting in aid of Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children. Your Generous Support would be much appreciated
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