On 24th October 2011, Irish citizen and hospice worker Celia de Jesus lost her life during a major flood event in Dublin. Unable to exit her basement flat as floodwater quickly rose at her door, she was trapped and drowned. In his report, the Dublin District Coroner of the time argue that Celia de Jesus drowned “as a result of a surge of water and flooding over a short period of time following two days of heavy rain”, reaching a final verdict of “death by misadventure”. However, extensive research into the tragic event reveals that the coroner report omits several pieces of evidence clearly challenging the conclusion of the report. Two of the main pieces of evidence left out of the report are as follows: • EVIDENCE 1: Celia de Jesus’s landlord had not received planning permission to divide the basement of his property into two rental units. Celia de Jesus was therefore renting an unauthorised basement flat. Furthermore, while located in a well-known flood-prone area, the basement flat had only one means of exit, the entrance door. All windows of the flat were blocked with metal bars. When Celia de Jesus was unable to open her entrance door for unknown reasons, she had no other means of exit at her disposal and was trapped. These pieces of evidence are never explicitly mentioned in the report and never outlined as a major cause of the tragic death. Instead, the claim is made that the works to divide the basement into two rental units (“appear to”) precede the Building Control Act 1990 and that, as a result, they shall be deemed to have been permitted. However, such a legal technicality cannot justify entertaining a misleading account of the tragic death. • EVIDENCE 2: In the coroner report, a list of planning applications submitted for the property in which Celia de Jesus died, both granted and refused, is provided. However, one planning application, dated 2009 and refused, is not included in the list. In this planning application addressed to Dublin City Council, it is stated that the property in which Celia de Jesus lived and died is “not of a habitable standard” (architect report, planning application 3066/09). Despite such a concerning statement, the issue failed to be addressed, which constituted another significant enabler of the tragic event. Following the tragic event and until now, various state and local government agencies, among them Dublin City Council, South Dublin County Council and the Office of Public Works, have actively sustained the misleading account of Celia de Jesus’s death in reports and during public meetings. Instead of mentioning the planning breach and institutional failure that led to the tragic death, they consistently and unliterally blamed the flood. The misleading account was widely relayed in the local and national press and among local communities. As we are now approaching the fifteenth anniversary of the tragic death, we ask Dublin City Council, South Dublin County Council, the Office of Public Works and the Minister for Justice to take the following actions as a matter of urgency: • ACTION 1: Issue a public statement explaining the full circumstances of the death of Celia de Jesus based on all available evidence • ACTION 2: Issue a public apology for having sustained a misleading account of the tragic death • ACTION 3: Request an immediate review of the coroner report and of its final verdict Please sign the petition to support these demands and share as widely as you can thank you!

Children spend a huge proportion of their lives in classrooms. They should not have to breathe poorly ventilated, unfiltered, rebreathed air for six hours a day when practical solutions exist. COVID has not disappeared. Reinfections continue, and a proportion of children and adults (16% according HSE FADA report, 15-53% according to HIQA's review of international evidence, 16% according to Mass General Brigham study, 2026, 27% of healthcare workers according to NHS REACH-OUT study, 2026) develop Long COVID — sometimes with disabling symptoms. Due to the lack of information on long Covid in Ireland, much of this harm is going undiagnosed or is not attributed to the real cause, COVID-19 infection. The WHO, the CDC, the OECD and other international organizations continue to warn about Long COVID, including its impact on children, yet public awareness in Ireland remains remarkably low. Clean indoor air is one of the few interventions that can protect everyone without requiring individual behaviour. Good ventilation and appropriately sized HEPA filtration reduce exposure to airborne infectious particles while also helping to reduce pollutants, allergens and particulate matter. Other places are already acting. Schools in London, parts of the United States, Canada, Australia and elsewhere have introduced filtration, air-quality monitoring or wider clean-air programmes. Ireland announced €62 million for school ventilation improvements and HEPA filtration in December 2021, yet HEPA filtration is still not standard in Irish classrooms. This is also about the right to honest public-health information. Parents should be given clear, current information about airborne transmission, Long COVID, women and girls being at greater risk of Long COVID, reinfection and the potential longer-term consequences of infection so that they can make informed decisions for their families. The information vacuum on the reality of Long COVID and the huge burden it puts on the healthcare system is being filled by racist, antivax conspiracy theorists. Clean Indoor Air will save lives and improve the health and wellbeing of children today and for generations to come. The infrastructure we put in place now will protect pupils and teachers from COVID, influenza and many other airborne infections, while improving the everyday quality of the air they breathe.  Ireland entered the pandemic with the 4th highest rate of asthma in the world with 1 in 5 children suffering and as an outlier in the EU with rising deaths from asthma. It is an abomination that the government decided against making HEPA filters standard in classrooms when faced with COVID-19, and we feel it is an insult to our intelligence and an exercise in gaslighting when politicians and media discuss issues such as "alarming rates of absenteeism" and "record breaking hospital overcrowding", while completely ignoring the reality of long COVID. We know how to make indoor air cleaner. We know how to reduce airborne transmission. Parents deserve accurate information about the risks. What is missing is the political will to act. Please join us in asking the Government to make clean air and honest public-health information a basic standard for every child in Ireland.

I recently required cancer testing followed by a consultation. I was scared when I met the Consultant as I was awaiting my results. I was told that the appointment was being recorded with AI. I objected a number of times but was told that AI was being used for notes and letters. Despite my objection, I felt I didn't have a choice as I badly needed my results.  I was very upset following this interaction as my body, voice and highly sensitive information was fed into AI. I asked people on social media if they experienced the same and many informed me that it happened to them in GP appointments as well as Specialist Consultant appointments. Some told me that they were refused medical treatment for their children unless they consented to AI recording. I was also told of AI being used to record notes in counselling sessions. This is a violation of rights and raises questions around privacy and consent. Some people may not understand what they are consenting to. We don't know where or how this data is being stored and processed. We don't know if medical professionals are checking it before sending out notes and letters and mistakes could end up on a permanent medical records. It is unclear what exactly professionals are using it for, in my case I was told it was for notes but others have told me they were not informed of its use. Forced consent is not consent.  It is unacceptable that patients are being told that they must consent to AI recording their appointment in order to access medical support. There is an imbalance of power as patients are unwell, scared and vulnerable; they have no choice but consent in order to get treatment. Medical care should be person-centred and patients' rights and objections must be heard.

Other people should join me in this campaigne because there has been many issues lately with the tullamore skate scene as the park is an unsafe place and the skatepark no longer feels like a fun place to learn to skate there is many skaters in tullamore and only one skatepark is no longer enough

We believe women should retain meaningful choice in how they receive care during pregnancy and birth, and that maternity care options should be enhanced, not restricted, by healthcare reforms. We fully support and strongly endorse major investment in the public maternity care system, and we want to see it developed to the highest possible standard, with meaningful choice across care pathways, including consultant-led care, midwifery-led care, and community-based care. However, this must be achieved by strengthening and expanding services, not by removing existing options, particularly where there is no adequate or appropriate alternative available to replace the current private care pathway. Thousands of pregnant women choose private maternity care for a range of personal reasons. For many, the key reason is the guarantee of continuity of care: having a chosen consultant care for them from the first antenatal appointment through to delivery and postnatal follow-up. This pathway is deeply significant because it provides: • Tailored, personalised care: Women with specific physical or emotional needs, including those with past traumatic experiences, require care that reflects and responds to their circumstances. • Trust and peace of mind: Being attended by a familiar consultant who understands a woman's history provides reassurance during what is often the most significant medical event of her life to date. Most women choose this care pathway and make financial sacrifices to do so because an equivalent level of care is not available to them within the public system. Not every woman chooses this option. But every woman should have the right to. Yet under current Sláintecare reforms, access to the private maternity care pathway is being phased out. Maternity care is disproportionately affected by Sláintecare policy, and women are the only group directly impacted in this way. Unlike other areas of healthcare, where private and public options exist side by side, maternity care in Ireland operates within the public hospital system, as there are no private maternity hospitals. Removing private care from public hospitals removes access to the private maternity care pathway entirely. This creates a clear structural inequity: choice is being reduced in a female-only area of healthcare, while private options remain available in other medical specialties. We call on the Government to maintain access to the private maternity care pathway within the maternity care system by refraining from removing private maternity care access within public maternity hospitals.

German Shepherd dogs are known for their fantastic abilities as service dogs. They combine intelligence, trainability, physical capability and very strong bonds with their handlers. They are the most loyal dog breed. They have physical strenght to provide balance support, pulling wheelchairs, opening doors, retrieving dropped objects. German Shepherds has proved themselves as guide dogs for people with visual impairments, as medical alert and psychiatric service dogs.They are confident under pressure. Yes, they require proper training but so as any other service dog. On a personal note....Kurtin,beautiful, loyal and absolutely outstanding non official  (unfortunately and very unfairly) therapy dog has been by my special needs son's side for nearly 12 years. 

We, the  Student nurses , call on the Irish Government to introduce payment for all mandatory clinical placement hours completed by student nurses and midwives, as the prices of apprenticeship rise and we work hard and don’t feel rewarded. Student nurses regularly work full 13-hour shifts, often three days per week, while balancing academic requirements and rising living costs. Many students must work additional jobs to pay rent, bills, transport costs and other essential expenses, as Susi don’t cover the summer times the student nurses must work in. The current system places significant financial and personal strain on nursing students and may discourage people from entering or remaining in the profession. We call on the Government to: • Introduce fair payment for all mandatory clinical placement hours. • Review financial supports available to nursing and midwifery students. • Ensure no student is forced into financial hardship while completing compulsory healthcare training. • Support recruitment and retention of future nurses by removing unnecessary financial barriers.

An Appointment, Not a Waiting List. This campaign is born out of my family's absolute worst nightmare. 19 months ago, we suffered the devastating, heart-breaking loss of my nephew to suicide. Today, we are living through the nightmare all over again. My niece has been diagnosed with ASD Level 1 and severe depression, yet she is currently stranded on a HSE CAMHS waiting list, denied the urgent care she needs. We know the terrifying cost of waiting. We are being pushed to the brink of crisis while the system stalls, and I refuse to sit by and watch the state fail another child. Right now, over 4,700 children across Ireland are stranded on HSE CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) waiting lists. Hundreds of them have been waiting for more than a year. Behind these statistics are real families in despair. Parents are forced to watch their children’s mental health deteriorate day by day in a broken system. Early intervention is vital, but the HSE is tied up in recruitment bottlenecks and systemic delays. If a child is waiting too long for a physical surgery, the state steps in through the National Treatment Purchase Fund to pay for them to be seen privately. Mental health deserves the exact same urgency. We are demanding that the Minister for Health and the Minister for Mental Health establish a Mental Health Treatment Purchase Fund. Our demand is simple: If the HSE cannot provide a child with a CAMHS appointment within 3 months, the state must automatically fund alternative, accredited private or community-based therapies. Access to life-saving mental health care should be based on a child's medical need, not their parents' ability to pay hundreds of Euros in private fees. If the state cannot provide the public care in time, the state must pay for the alternative. Sign this petition to demand immediate funding relief for the thousands of children left behind by CAMHS. Our children cannot afford to wait.

Irish trans healthcare is consistently ranked one of the worst in Europe. Trans people report that the Irish healthcare system fails them time and again, and many who are lucky enough to afford it must travel abroad to access life saving medical treatment. We are calling on Cavan county council to back a model of trans healthcare which is recommended and endorsed by WPATH and WHO, and by transgender community organisations such as Transgender Equality Network Ireland, Trans Healthcare Action and Transgress the NGS. Trans healthcare should be based on sound science and input from the transgender community. This would include: 1. Following an informed consent model of healthcare. 2. Replacing the national gender service with a new national clinical program for trans healthcare, designed in collaboration with trans people. 3. Creating guidelines and support for GPs to treat trans patients in primary care settings, and recognizing the importance of GPs in providing gender-affirming care. 4. Establishing guidelines and facilities for trans healthcare for young people under the age of 18 5. Implementing full a ban on conversion therapy 6. Providing support for those seeking non- medical gender recognition and full protection for non-binary individuals based on the 2018 Government Review of the Gender Recognition Act 2015 7. Respecting the bodily autonomy of intersex individuals

Shingles is not merely a temporary rash. Many people experience severe and persistent nerve pain, known as post-herpetic neuralgia, which can continue for months or years after the visible symptoms have disappeared. This can have a devastating impact on quality of life, independence, mental health, and the ability to work or care for family members. Making the vaccine affordable—or free for those at highest risk—would not only prevent suffering but could also reduce healthcare costs by avoiding expensive treatment of complications and long-term pain.

Why this matters to Ireland: • A Proven System: For decades, Ireland has operated a safe and effective "Natural Health Ecosystem" through Health Food Stores and local Pharmacies - already governed by strict FSAI guidance. • Public Health: 80% of Irish adults have used food supplements to support their wellbeing, reducing the long-term burden on our public health system. • Economic Impact: These regulations threaten the viability of local health businesses and established Irish brands that are leaders in the European market. •  One size does not fit all: Proposed "harmonisation" takes no account of differing geographical needs — Irish people require higher levels of certain vitamins, including Vitamin D, than most other EU member states.  

For those with small babies, they are left unable to feed their children with no notice. For those unable to travel, they are left with no access to a shop to purchase water. The elderly and vulnerable are left with no heating, and farm animals and pets are left with no drinking water. There is a knock effect for everyone when this basis necessity is taken so regularly, and without warning.  The water rarely, if ever, returns at the aforementioned time, and when it does, it is unusable for at least a whole day after due to the sediment.