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Entries Tagged as 'Recession'

Community supports and the HSE budget in 2013

December 6th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Disability, Irish Politics, Recession

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 [...]

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For those who can, please stand

September 26th, 2012 · 5 Comments · Disability, Equality, Irish Politics, Paralympics, Recession

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 [...]

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James Reilly emails FG members

August 23rd, 2012 · 1 Comment · HSE, Irish Politics, Recession

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 [...]

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Sorted

June 2nd, 2012 · No Comments · Irish Politics, Recession

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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The household charge and local government in Ireland

March 21st, 2012 · 10 Comments · Irish Politics, Recession

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 [...]

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Mauled by the Celtic Tiger – CESR report published

February 13th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Irish Politics, Recession, Social Policy

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, [...]

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Plan B

January 20th, 2012 · 3 Comments · Irish Politics, Recession, Social Policy

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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Not Our Debt

January 18th, 2012 · 7 Comments · Equality, Irish Politics, Recession, Social Policy

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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You know #Budget12 is going to be bad when

December 1st, 2011 · 2 Comments · Equality, Irish Politics, Recession

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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National Association of Widows

November 14th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Recession, Social Policy

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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