12 September 2025

Ireland’s Health System Collapse: Dying on Waiting Lists While Immigrants Get Free Care – Blame Mass Immigration and Government Failure!

Ireland’s Health System Collapse: Dying on Waiting Lists While Immigrants Get Free Care – Blame Mass Immigration and Government Failure!

Ireland’s health system was stretched before the pandemic and before we opened our borders to anyone and everyone without knowing who they are. The HSE’s incompetence is killing our people, take Harvey Morrison Sherratt, the 9-year-old boy who waited years for life-saving scoliosis surgery, only to die in July 2025, despite Simon Harris’s 2017 promise that no child would wait more than four months. Mass uncontrolled immigration is fuelling this catastrophe, overwhelming services while asylum seekers and refugees get free medical cards on arrival—privileges denied to many hardworking Irish citizens scraping by on means-tested scraps. The government pours billions into a bloated HSE that fails our own, while migrants flood in, straining resources and creating a two-tier system. Enough is enough, it’s time to halt mass immigration, overhaul the HSE, and put Irish lives first!

Harvey’s Tragedy: A Broken Promise Kills a Child

Harvey Morrison Sherratt, a brave 9-year-old from Dublin with spina bifida and scoliosis, died on July 29, 2025, after enduring years of pain on a waiting list for surgery. Back in 2017, then Health Minister Simon Harris vowed no child would wait longer than four months for scoliosis treatment—a hollow pledge shattered as Harvey languished for seven years. His heartbroken parents demand answers, but Harris, now Tánaiste, dodges with weak calls for meetings, too late for Harvey, whose death exposes the HSE’s lethal neglect. Public outrage boils, with petitions and protests calling for Harris’s resignation—this isn’t a “tragedy,” it’s criminal failure.

The CervicalCheck Scandal: Harris and Holohan’s Deadly Legacy

The CervicalCheck scandal, where over 220 women received incorrect smear test results leading to misdiagnoses and at least 18 deaths, unfolded on Simon Harris and Tony Holohan’s watch as Health Minister and Chief Medical Officer. Despite warnings, Holohan advised against a full review to avoid “undermining public confidence,” while Harris claimed unawareness of key actions like Holohan’s letter accusing advocates of “baseless claims.” Holohan later expressed “huge regret” but omitted the scandal from his book, dismissing media reports as “completely false” and blaming a “poor understanding” of his role. Harris dodges questions to this day, even as victims’ families fight for justice amid €300 million in claims. This betrayal of Irish women highlights the same incompetence killing patients today, Harris and Holohan must be held accountable.

Fraud in Nurse Recruitment: Government Contracts Fuel Exploitation

The HSE’s reliance on foreign nurses has opened the door to rampant fraud, with private recruitment agencies exploiting desperate migrant workers while pocketing HSE payments. Fine Gael councillor Baby Pereppadan (originally from India), former South Dublin Mayor, co-owns Angel Care Consultancy Limited with Babu Valooran Kochuvarkey (also from India) , which charged migrant nurses thousands of euros in unlawful “agency fees” to secure jobs in Irish nursing homes, on top of standard visa and exam costs. Three nurses reported paying €3,000–€3,600, with one directed to transfer €3,000 to Pereppadan’s son, Britto, also a Fine Gael councillor. Pereppadan, who failed to declare his 50% stake and directorship in the company for 2022–2024, claimed ignorance of the fees, which violate Ireland’s 2012 employment laws. Migrant Nurses Ireland condemned these scams, noting substandard conditions in nursing homes that often ignore the exploitation. Meanwhile, such agencies secure lucrative HSE contracts to supply nurses, profiting twice—once from exploited nurses and again from public funds—draining resources meant for Irish patients who languish on waiting lists due to the government’s lax oversight.

Waiting Lists Exploding: A Death Sentence for Thousands

Ireland’s waiting lists are a national disgrace, ballooning to 713,930 patients by April 2025, with year-to-date additions up 5.4% to 465,820. Outpatients endure the longest waits in Europe, with 40% lingering over six months—up from pre-Covid levels—and averages nearing seven months. Nearly 260,000 wait for therapy or assessment in communities, a 55% surge since 2019. The HSE’s “Waiting List Action Plan 2025” promises 25% cuts in long waits, but with €100 million wasted on private firms for “insourcing,” results are pathetic. Patients die waiting, almost 1,300 in winter 2022-2023 alone from admission delays, and audits reveal deaths on genetics lists. Potentially thousands more at risk, with no 2025 figures released, this isn’t healthcare, it’s a lottery of life and death.

Crowded A&E

Trolley Crisis: Hospitals as War Zones

Hospital trolleys are a symbol of HSE shame, with over 25,000 patients on them in the first two months of 2025 alone, including 250 children. In 2024, 122,186 endured this humiliation, many waiting over 36 hours. Recent figures: 477 on trolleys on August 26, 2025; 446 on September 9. HSE chiefs “concern” over congestion at key sites, but flu and COVID spikes expose chronic bed shortages—proving trolleys result from insufficient capacity. Labour calls for urgent action, but the government’s “reset” post-COVID is a joke—patients suffer in corridors like refugees in their own country.

Immigration’s Deadly Strain: Free Care for Migrants, Queues for Irish

Mass immigration is crippling the HSE, with 20% of Ireland’s population non-Irish born—one of the highest rates globally—stretching services to breaking point. Asylum seekers and refugees automatically get medical cards for free care, exempt from means tests that bar many Irish families. Irish citizens must prove poverty for the same—creating a two-tier system where migrants jump queues while natives die waiting. The rapid influx overwhelms—nearly 1 million on lists amid housing and health crises. X posts scream: “Immigration will destroy Ireland,” with health services “capsizing” under demand. Projections warn of skyrocketing demand by 2030—blame unchecked borders.

Importing Nurses While Irish Ones Flee: The Pension Hole Betrayal

The government hypocritically recruits thousands of nurses from India and the Philippines while freezing hires for Irish graduates due to a massive pension hole created by Brian Lenihan during the 2008 bailout. In panic mode, Lenihan not only bailed out Irish banks but also propped up German ones, raiding the national pension pot to the tune of billions, leaving a black hole that now blocks Irish nurse recruitment. Qualified Irish nurses emigrate to Australia and beyond, unable to return home due to low pay, high costs, and no jobs. Meanwhile, we import foreign nurses to fill gaps, ignoring our own. The cost of living crushes Irish nurses: charged for car parking at work (up to €10/day), many commute hours to Dublin jobs because they can’t afford city rents. This betrayal drives talent away—fix the pension mess, lift the freeze, and bring our nurses home!

Rise Up: End Immigration Chaos, Fix the HSE, Save Irish Lives

The HSE’s €100 million outsourcing flop and ballooning budgets prove government failure—people die while migrants get prioritised care. Halt mass immigration, enforce borders, and means-test all medical cards. Demand Harris resign, protest for reform, and put Ireland first. Join rallies, our lives depend on it!

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