The new government must not turn its back on care like the last one did

What we need from the next Dáil is an understanding that care is the fundamental work of any society, writes Victoria White

Care. From where I’m sitting that’s what was missing from the Coalition’s agenda. Care is in crisis in this society because there is no value put on care. Care is in crisis because love doesn’t have a price.

What price can you put on the care Mary McDonnell has given her daughter Sinead, severely impacted by cerebral palsy, for the last 50 years in her home in Douglas? It is impossible to even begin to count the cost to Mary who was a young woman of 28 when this massive care responsibility landed on her shoulders.