Kildare Focus 06.10.21
Kildare Focus
Wednesday, 6 October 2021 - 38 minutes
Dr. Brendan Walsh
Research Officer, ESRI
• The impact of hospital bed supply on patients’ length of stay
Darragh O’Connor
Head of Strategic Organising and Campaigns, SIPTU
• Warned politicians at yesterday’s Oireachtas Committee of mass exodus in childcare sector, if Budget 2022 fails on pay crisis
Bríd Smith TD (PBP)
Dublin South Central
• Any further plans to build data centres in Ireland should be scrapped, until the national grid can cope with the energy demand
Kyrsia Lynch
Chair, Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services Ireland (AIMS)
• Hundreds of people are expected to gather outside the Dáil later for a protest against ongoing restrictions in maternity hospitals
• Says communications from the HSE on the matter is very poor
Prof. Brendan Kelly
Professor of Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin
• Watching violence on TV increases the chance of viewers becoming violent
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