Palliative care services need funding and beds

THE Taoiseach was very timely with his call for a “a great national conversation” on what it means to be Irish and with his references to our steadfast values and a sense of duty and community.

The Irish Hospice Society recently launched a major report on palliative care services in Ireland.

It highlighted massive gaps in these services for the dying and called for the provision of inpatient hospices in the midlands, north-east and south-east.