Dublin North East Sinn Féin -- Building an Ireland of Equals

Launch of Health Policy and major Health Rally

Published: 10 October, 2006

Dessie Ellis, Mary Lou McDonald, Larry O'Toole and Peter Lawlor

Dessie Ellis, Mary Lou McDonald, Larry O'Toole and Peter Lawlor

Dublin Sinn Féin Councillor Larry O'Toole has called on Dubliners to come out in support of a major National Health Rally planned for Dublin on October 21st next. Speaking at a press conference in Darndale this morning Larry stated that Dublin people should come out on the streets in huge numbers to demand their healthcare rights.

He said. "Sinn Féin is demanding a properly funded health system as a public service that provides care for all on the basis of need alone and funded from our taxes. Provision of care should not be based on ability to pay.

"As part of our health campaign we have brought our policy proposals around the country and discussed them with a range of healthcare groups and professionals working in the industry and I am delighted with the overwhelmingly positive response we have had.

"Over the next couple of weeks Dublin Sinn Féin activists will be out each and every night distributing leaflets and putting up posters encouraging Dublin people to come out and demand our healthcare rights. We will be distributing 130,000 copies of our newspaper, Dublin News, along with 60,000 leaflets and we will be putting up 2,000 posters throughout the city highlighting the Rally.

"I am calling on the people of Dublin North East to come out in huge numbers to show the government the widespread dissatisfaction there is with the poor state of our health service. Our health service can be better. Sinn Féin is proposing a viable, realistic alternative approach which can end the current inefficient and unequal two tier health system".