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
International human rights organisation the Centre for Economic and Social Rights yesterday published a report reviewing the impact of recession on human rights in Ireland. Mauled by the Celtic Tiger: Human Rights in Ireland’s Economic Meltdown reviews Ireland’s commitments to international human rights instruments, research and statistics available on the impact of austerity on Human, [...]
Tags:Austerity·Center for Economic and Social Rights·CESR·Human rights·Ireland
From today’s Irish Times (I am one of the signatories) Wanted: emergency budget Sir, – It is now clear that austerity policies are not working. The domestic economy will remain recession this year. The Government has accepted that employment, consumer spending and investment will fall again. We are experiencing a worrying rise in income inequality, [...]
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Launched today a new campaigning network of local and global justice organisations, Debt Justice Action. Next week we via our government are paying €1.25 billion in the latest payment of an unsecured Anglo bond. This will be followed by numerous other payments. Repayments not of home loans or debts that the general public ran up [...]
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Labour backbenchers (when not appearing on all TV/Radio programmes whilst their FG counterparts hide in the bushes) are issuing pre budget leaflets like this. This is from Ciaran Lynch TD. If you see any other leaflets over the weekend let me know. Nothing about equality there… all about hard choices and long term approaches. In [...]
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The stuff to give Labour and Fine Gael backbenchers bad dreams. Another thought is how rarely we see older women in the media.
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