Arrogant Coalition fails to deliver

AS deputies depart the Dáil for three months it is timely to assess the record of the Coalition Government.

This Government has grown arrogant and secretive, punitive of people on the margins of society and resentful of the media's role as the public's eyes and ears.

In a tragic way, the shocking death of two-year-old Róisín Ruddle has epitomised the crisis in the health service. She died after being sent home from the national hospital for sick children because of a shortage of intensive care nurses caused by Government cutbacks.