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Ireland’s Health Service is Collapsing: 920,000 on Waiting Lists While €40 Billion Vanishes on Migrant Hotels and NGOs
The facts are brutal: 920,144 Irish citizens languished on hospital waiting lists in November 2025, with 272,561 waiting over a year for treatment and 78,000 children stuck in limbo. A record 1.7 million attended emergency departments in 2024, while trolley numbers hit 677 in a single day this winter. Cancer survival rates now lag behind Eastern Europe in some categories, yet the HSE’s own budget for 2025 is €25.8 billion—more than ever.
Meanwhile, €2.8 billion has been spent since 2022 housing 110,000+ international protection applicants in 354 commercial hotels and B&Bs, with €1.5 billion going to private contractors in 2024 alone. Add the €725 million RTÉ bailout, €200 million+ in NGO grants, and billions more on modular units, and the money that could have built ten new regional hospitals has instead funded open-door policies.
Doctors and nurses are fleeing—over 1,000 left the public system in 2024—while politicians promise “Sláintecare” that never arrives. X is ablaze with scans of Irish pensioners on trolleys beside empty hotel contracts worth millions.
This isn’t mismanagement—it’s misallocation on a criminal scale. End the hotel racket, deport failed claimants, and redirect every euro to the Irish sick. Or admit the HSE is no longer for the Irish at all.
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