The Department of Health and it’s ministerial team held a press conference after the budget yesterday to talk about the budget and the estimates for health expenditure in 2013. I am surprised at the lack of focus on the very serious problems emerging from the Department or indeed being hidden from view. Minister for State with […]
Tags:#budget13·#NoPAcuts·Department of Health·Minister Kathleen Lynch
It has been a busy month. When the Paralympics began I like many other people with disabilities wondered what the impact would be on the attitudes of the general public, primarily whether messages of rights and equality and respect would outweigh expressions of pity and sympathy. I didn’t know that during the Paralympics in Ireland […]
Minister for Health, James Reilly wrote to members of Fine Gael today. I thought you might be interested to see the contents. A winter of discontent ahead, how patients are not going to suffer when all agency staff are cut I don’t know. Embargoes on recruitment have already decimated many services. And the waiting time […]
Key public services such as education, hospitals, and social welfare will now be safeguarded by allowing us to have guaranteed access to the insurance policy of the ESM should we ever need it. From Enda Kenny’s weekly email to Fine Gael members yesterday evening following the vote in favour of the referendum. That’s grand so. […]
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In an effort to scare convince people to pay the household charge, politicians including Desperate Dan Phil are extolling the virtues of local government and local services and paying for them. There’s a whole lot of mentioning of playgrounds and swimming pools in the last few days as if we were drowning in them. This […]
Tags:household charge·Local Government in Ireland·Phil Hogan