Cian O'Callaghan: “A quarter of all work carried out at the Galway University Hospital lab comes from the private hospital Bon Secours.”

That's the level of support pensioners living alone got in yesterday's budget, the equivalent of a butter voucher.

These delays are not abstract. They involve people waiting for cancer diagnosis.

A previous stamp duty cut took place at the end of the Celtic Tiger era, at which point the country was promised it would not happen again without proper protections being put in place.

It takes place at weekends because of the way CUMH and the Rotunda operates their rosters.