Minister Simon Harris Students For Life Ireland has hit out at the Health Minister, Simon Harris, over what it labelled his “obsession” with the abortion issue.
Speaking in response the Health Minister’s recent remarks on exclusion zones, a spokesperson for the group said that “any time the Health Minister gets into political difficulty, whenever there is talk of no confidence motions or negativity of any kind, he immediately reverts back to the abortion issue and takes to Twitter, as we saw during the week, to self-congratulate himself on successfully repealing all constitutional protection for the unborn child.
“Over the past seven days the Health Minister has devoted a total of 23 tweets to discussing abortion or reflecting on the repeal of the Eighth Amendment, he said.
Buggies
He added that “Students For Life Ireland would like to know if the minister has any plans to tweet about the trolley crisis anytime soon? Or perhaps he might like to comment on the women with buggies queuing outside the Capuchin Day Centre for nappies and baby food?”
It comes as new statistics reveal that the trolley crisis – the number of sick people who need to be admitted to hospital but for whom there is no bed available – was the worst it has ever been.
This week, 760 people were waiting on chairs and trollies in corridors for admission to hospital.