Election 2024: Sinn Féin to launch new healthcare policy as it fights to regain momentum
Election 2024: Sinn Féin health spokesman David Cullinane will also promise to expand full medical cards to all those on the median income over five years in government. Photograph: Julien Behal/PApolicy as it fights to regain momentum following a series of scandals and controversies that have dominated the party’s pre-election run-in.
GP-only medical cards would not be expanded beyond the current level due to the pressures such a step would place on family doctors, Mr Cullinane said. Despite a rolling series of controversies that have knocked Sinn Féin’s polling, Mr Cullinane defended his party leader’s handling of thehad stuck to a “robust process” and that Sinn Féin had “dealt with all those issues to the best of our ability, with the best of intentions”.
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