Weekly share
21%
Share of the seeded national briefing currently attributed to this topic.
Topic intelligence
Health
Hospital waiting lists, elective care, GP access, and community services.
Topic metrics
How much this issue is affecting parliamentary behaviour right now.
Featured TDs
3
Members repeatedly surfacing in recent item retrieval.
Featured parties
3
Party rooms with meaningful exposure to this topic.
Briefing points
Source-linked brief points currently shaping the dossier.
The Social Democrats' health bill moved to committee stage with Whitmore arguing for stronger reporting obligations around delays.
Pearse Doherty argued that housing affordability and healthcare backlogs reflect political choices rather than unavoidable capacity limits.
Mary Lou used leaders' questions to connect housing delays and health waiting lists into a wider critique of government delivery.
Jennifer Whitmore pressed the Health Minister on when Wicklow-specific elective care waiting-time data would be refreshed.
Linked TDs
Members currently shaping the topic’s technical language or political framing.
TD
High · 0.87Jennifer Whitmore TD
Elective Care Access Bill reached committee stage
Open dossierTD
High · 0.88Mary Lou McDonald TD
Linked housing pressure and public service delivery in leaders' questions
Open dossierTD
High · 0.91Eoin O Broin TD
Sinn Fein room flagged Eoin as the most active housing voice this week
Open dossierLinked parties
Party rooms with meaningful exposure to this topic.
Party
High · 0.84Social Democrats
Social Democrats is under the most visible pressure on health while trying to hold discipline.
Open dossierParty
High · 0.91Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin is under the most visible pressure on housing while trying to hold discipline.
Open dossierParty
High · 0.82Labour
Labour is under the most visible pressure on health while trying to hold discipline.
Open dossierBills on this topic
Legislative files through which the topic is currently moving.
Evidence trail
Shared source categories informing the topic summary.
Bill stage updateDail debateLeaders' QuestionsParliamentary question