Lorraine Hennessy

The Workers’ Party have said that while the crisis in government may have receded for the moment following the resignation of Minister Frances Fitzgerald, the multiple crises faced by working class people across the state continue unabated and with no sense of urgency on the part for the Taoiseach or his ministers.

Lorraine Hennessy, Workers’ Party representative in Dublin Mid-West said that over the past days government ministers and their counterparts in Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin had worked themselves into a frenzy while the very real issues of homelessness and the health crisis were all but forgotten about.

Ms. Hennessy said: “For most people the chaotic megaphone diplomacy of the past week has been a total turnoff and a distraction from the very real issues that people want and expect to see addressed. It was only the prospect of a collective ‘plague on all your houses’ from the electorate that has led to Frances Fitzgerald’s resignation and a confidence and supply deal that is barely afloat”.

“It is clear that neither this government nor the putative opposition has any intention of commencing a major programme of public housing construction, of addressing the health crisis or the many other crises that face this country today.  There is no supply and the people have lost all confidence in the major parties.”