2035
full public health cover
Universal Healthcare & Medical Cards
- Free prescription medicines for all households.
- Upgrade GP visit cards to full medical cards, and give them to all workers up to the median income.
- Abolish prescription and car-parking charges.
- Extend medical cards to 110,000 more people, and cut the monthly medicines cost cap from €80 to €50 (Alternative Budget 2026).
- €175 million to reduce the cost of basic healthcare (Alternative Budget 2027).
250
public GPs
GPs, Dental & Pharmacy
- A public GP contract, with 60% more GP training places.
- Public dentists and dental teams, with 32% more training places.
- A Pharmacy First model for common conditions.
5 million
extra home care hours
Home & Community Care
- A home first approach to care.
- 2,000 community beds, including 1,200 residential, nursing and rehabilitation beds.
- €252.5 million for hospital, home and community care, and €85 million for community nursing homes and older people's healthcare (Alternative Budget 2027).
5,000
hospital beds by 2031
Hospitals, Waiting Lists & A&E
- Includes replacing 1,000 unsafe beds.
- Four new elective-only public hospitals to tackle waiting lists.
- Legislation for safe staffing levels.
- An additional 1,000 hospital beds (Alternative Budget 2027). Alternative Budget 2026 proposed 500.
- €800 million of capital investment and €30 million for the National Cancer Strategy (Alternative Budget 2027).
€250m
Mental Health Action Plan
Mental Health
- A Child and Youth Mental Health Service to replace CAMHS, up to age 25.
- Expand Jigsaw and provide universal counselling.
- Twenty more early intervention in psychosis teams.
- €71.5 million more for mental health (Alternative Budget 2027).
1.5 million
extra disability home care hours
Disability Services
- Double Personal Assistance hours.
- 3,000+ more residential places, and double respite investment.
- Fully staff Children's Disability Network Teams.
5 years
Community Addiction and Recovery Strategy
Addiction & Recovery
- Restore funding for local and regional drug and alcohol taskforces.
- Invest in community addiction and recovery inpatient capacity.
Free
HRT and contraception
Women's Health & Children
- A life-course women's health programme.
- A No Child Left Behind waiting list strategy.
- Expanded dental screening in schools.
- €40 million to prioritise women's health (Alternative Budget 2027).
40,000
healthcare workers over five years
Health Workforce
- Double CAO places for medicine, nursing and health courses.
- A job guarantee for Irish health graduates.
- Bring healthcare workers home and back into the service.