Liam Quaide TD

"Beyond the battering ram..." A new frontier with the HSE. Unfortunately, if the St. Stephen's Hospital mental health service proposal moves to planning phase it will go ahead. This centralised service will mean people with severe mental illness being cut off from society.

Genocide

Govt is attempting to ram through full ratification of EU-Canada trade agreement (CETA) without any pre-legislative scrutiny. This is despite the Supreme Court finding their previous attempt to do so was unconstitutional. socialdemocrats.ie/government-mus…

Israel’s popular channel 14 hosts mock a Palestinian mother whose daughter has died of starvation. “She ate her daughter” one says, as they all laugh.

The ‘capitulation’ narrative on the U.S./EU deal is correct. EU exporters now have 15% tariffs where the previous average was ~5%, save for some protected sectors, plus massive commitments to buy American… while American exports are apparently treated/tariffed exactly as before

Only in Gaza you will see airdrops and airstrikes in one picture. No one should look to the sky and wonder if what's falling is death or dinner.

The killing in Gaza continues. Yesterday, July 26, the Israeli military killed 106 people, 51 of whom were waiting for humanitarian aid. ישראל ממשיכה את ההרג בעזה. אתמול, 26.7, הצבא הישראלי הרג 106 בני אדם - מתוכם 51 בעת שחיכו לסיוע הומניטרי

Israeli settlers threw a dance party near the Gaza border — just miles from starving Palestinian children struggling to survive. This isn’t ignorance. It’s cruelty on full display.

400,000 people signing up to support a new left-wing party in just 48 hours is genuinely astonishing. Rather than its usual sneering, the British media should try and understand that this represents something big they should try to understand. They won't, though!

Another day in Gaza and in the heroic IDF’s war on Palestinian children. Here a 17 year old boy weighing just 25 kilos. A pariah state, run by ethnonationalists, religious fanatics and settler extremists, Israel is using its army to enforce a famine. Just like the Warsaw Ghetto.

Ms Rachel: “This baby is starving to death and wearing a trash bag for a diaper because aid is blocked by the Israeli government”

They're feeling some heat. But humanitarian professionals will tell you aid drops are a terrible and ineffective way to deliver aid. It will not be enough. This is not a serious attempt to deliver aid. It's window-dressing, a pose.

Was extra capacity added to OT, Physio, SLT, psychology training programmes to source the staff for this new service or is robbing Peter to pay Paul scenario & taking the same staff from other essential services ?

This is really significant. A cross-party committee of TDs & Senators, Govt & opposition, spent weeks scrutinising the OTB in detail and hearing from experts. They've said clearly: services must be in. Hugely important support and a strong message to Govt - time #PassTheOTB.

This is hugely important news. The Occupied Territories Bill I tabled in 2018 was clear, and the ICJ agreed in 2024 - we must end all trade with the illegal Israeli settlements, both goods & services. Today's vote in favour from the FA Ctte is a crucial step towards that,…

The Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs is to “strongly recommend” that the government’s rewrite of the Occupied Territories Bill should be expanded to include banning trade in services from the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The committee has concluded its…

Great conversations with residents of Carrigtwohill this evening on local infrastructure, migration (respectfully agreed to differ on that one), the protection of hedgerows and the quality of public services.

🇩🇪 Fully aware this is beyond my UN remit. BUT. As a conscientious European I ask: will anyone confront Germany for its POLICE’s shameful, sustained, and widespread violence that, after a year, reveals an institutionalized descent into repression? While too many Germans remain,…

The fact that the Irish government is mulling over whether trade in services as well as goods should be banned with illegal Israeli settlements, over 6 years since the Occupied Territories Bill was passed by a majority of TDs, makes a mockery of their rhetoric on Palestine.

The means test for Carers' Allowance is adding financial hardship & administrative tedium to so many other burdens faced by family carers who save the state a huge amount of cost. The Prog for Gov't committed to phasing out the means test. No progress on that. Not good enough.

I spent time meeting residents in lovely Doneraile today. Doneraile is dynamic with a variety of businesses but has been dealt a major blow recently with the imminent closure of the post office. Locals have lots of good things to say about Doneraile native Cllr Eamonn Horgan.