A Dublin councillor has hit out against the 'colossal' cash burden on parents to pay for hospital food in Dublin.
Fine Gael Councillor Vicki Casserly shared a TikTok in recent days when she attended Crumlin Children’s Hospital with her teenage son James, who is a wheelchair user and has cerebral palsy, idiopathic juvenile arthritis and osteoporosis. Cllr Casserly described her shock at paying €8.30 for two sausage rolls and a cup of tea in a café in the hospital.
She said: "That’s not a breakfast, that’s not a lunch, and that’s not a dinner. So you could have families in here for days and weeks on end and the financial burden it puts on people to afford to eat in here, it’s actually colossal and it’s disgraceful.”
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