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Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:25:31 +0000

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Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:46:06 +0000

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By: eliza

eliza — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:44:48 +0000

When you look at it, it comes down to two things:

Money and Croneyism….

Not things that any country has the market on, I’m afraid.

(iraq iraq iraq)

Not belitting anyone, but the root of many problems seem to be those two things…a pox on whomever decided to trade things for things!

By: Pelotudo

Pelotudo — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:54:46 +0000

2 months ago I wnet to the doctor about a very minor complaint, he referred me to a urologist. Now, I don’t have a medical card and can’t afford private insurance. Basically because my complaint isn’t serious enough I have been graded accordingly by the “Mr”… a minimum wait of a year and a half. Until I rang to find out they were not going to contact me until sometime in 2009 , if I was lucky. I was told that it is policy to only contact people to make the appointment.
Ok my point is… if they can’t even be arsed to send a simple letter to tell someone that they have a 1-2 year wait to be seen, they’re hardly going to tell some innocent women that they might have cancer….
We have to think of POLICY
and when I see that fat witch on the tv I feel sick..

By: Bock

Bock — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:28:18 +0000

Macdara: It’s a bit more complicated than that. All the medical staff are also public servants, as are all our firefighters, police, army, and a host of other professionals. By and large, these people do a good job.

The ones I’m complaining about are those mediocre thousands who possess no expertise in anything except getting promotions.

Here’s the test: if the civil service were somehow abolished tomorrow, who would be qualified to find a job somewhere else and who wouldn’t? That would show you quick enough who’s who.

By: Macdara

Macdara — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:19:30 +0000

Bock for once I can agree the biggest problem in Ireland is the civil servants
strike that its the incompetent civil servants. Politicians govern but its the civil servants that run the country.

I will change my normal voting if one of the opposition gauranntees to tackle public workers, pay , terms and conditions. But alas no one will as they are too strong and will bring the country to a halt. Shame really that we can fire politicians but cant even demote a Civil servant.

MacDara ( Living in a country with out a President or accepted government and surviving)

By: Jobs

Jobs — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:21:31 +0000

Go Mary!
Go Mary!
Go Mary!

By: frank o'shea

frank o'shea — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:21:13 +0000

well done bock, nothing but truth in your message, but you are merely a voice in the wilderness! perhaps the country’s messiah is on the way, any idea who it will be? just ’cause we’re out in mid-atlantic doesn’t mean we are lost as a nation!

By: Conan Drumm

Conan Drumm — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:10:57 +0000

And I nearly smashed the telly when that idiot reporter on the RTE news kept referring to “the people”, rather than the women, who had been called to the mass meeting. The fool.

And re the HSE… I wonder just how much it cost to change all the Health Boards’ letter heading and stationery and signage, and I wonder just how many administrative staff were made redundant… and I wonder how it is with a bigger population and so much more money being spent that there are fewer beds in the system than there were 20 years ago.

That’s about when Haughey started up his chain saw to make spending cuts while he wooed Terry Keane in fancy restaurants.

That’s CJ Haughey, you know, the man who appointed Gene Fitzgerald as Minister for Finance?

By: Jimmy Page's Trousers

Jimmy Page's Trousers — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:52:39 +0000

Sniffle: I don’t think that anybody bad-mouthing Harney and her various slitherings from responsibility is really going to cause too much of a ’smoke-screen’. Personally I doubt that the whole shooting match would run much worse were her attention fully diverted by making arguments for why it wasn’t her fault.

You see, she has minions to deal with all the stuff that isn’t stating why it’s not her fault. Like the minions that looked after the issue of the letter from Peter Naughton in 2005, informing her that the radiology department in Portlaoise was “in a shambles” and was staffed “by people who have no expertise in this area”.

Yep. Those minions are on the case. Harney can get back to telling us why it’s not her fault.