Reducing ex and current TD’s inflated salaries/pensions and expenses would easily cover the 8m figure every year.

Guys guys guys, give the lowlifes SOME credit. They waited a full 4 days after handing a billion to bondholders before telling us about the latest cuts necessary because theres apparently no money available.

I am really disgusted at this. My mother availed of home help hours when she was in chemotherapy and none of us could take time out of work to be with her every day. She had company, help with the housework so that she could just concentrate on letting the treatment do its work, and when we all got home we could do what we really wanted to do, which was spend as much time with her as possible. She also got out and about doing the shopping during the day, which was invaluable for her confidence and quality of life. If we hadn’t had those home help hours, my mother would have had a much much lower quality of life when she was ill. I hope minister Reilly never has to watch someone he loves be in that position. But sure with his pension and salary he could hire a private nurse. Not all of us have that luxury.

What an absolute disgrace, home help gives elderly people peace of mind knowing they can continue living at home with a bit of dignity. O Reilly and his fellow idiots in the HSE should resign for the sake of the country.

shame on the irish goverment, shame on you.

cut tds salarys ,expensives ect… and you would get 8 million back very easy

Typical Irish government. Cut money and services for the people who need it most!

cut it and see those home patients flood into A&E. do these guys not think with any form of logic?

so carers get over 16 euro an hour that’s bullshit my mother does this and she’s just over minimum wage those maths are wrong it will be more like 7 r 8 hundred thousand hours be cut I reckon

Cuts cuts cuts cuts cuts… “Enda Scissorhands” coming to to a cinema near you this Halloween.

There’s a disabled child in hospital since she was born in crumlin because the hse have no money to pay for the kind of home care she needs 7 days a week. All they are offering the parents is one day a week. The parents have to work to pay the mortgage so they are no choice but for the child to remain in limbo. Ridiculous.
Also the Hse are going to be relying on the likes of crosscare a care charity that supply volunteers to go into the elderly homes to feed and do some housework. For free; usually by people recently made redundant and in need of wages and doing this in order to be a useful part of society. So the hse are making cuts and getting care for nothing.

Most vulnerable affected again. Bad enough being in the situation to need home help as a result of chronic illness. If I could afford to emigrate I would be gone. It’s now a struggle living in this incredible mess of a country. Very sad that this is the situation and there’s lots more cuts on the way.

Most vulnerable hit again. Wasters in government. Useless people looking to line their own pockets while the people suffer on.

Some agencies ae paid by the HSE 27euro an hour, and then the agency pays the “carer” between 8euro-12euro an hour depending on location of care recipient. The HSE also has a direct care service – called Personal Care Package by where the care recipient gets paid directly 13.88euro an hour and can employ their own carer for up to 10 hours a week . This is normally for less acute, more mobile applicant for long and short term care. If ALL home help was moved away from Agency staff and towards direct payments for care recipents, there would be EXTRA hours available from the current budget. There is NO WILL on the part of the government to deliver care, just keep their well paid agency buddies in plum positions. Many agencies are owned and run by firneds/families and supporters of TDs and Senators from FF FG Lab etc.

Shame on the government,and I bet my house that none of their sick family members are going to be affected.

March from GPO 17th Oct. We who are disabled, sick or elderly are being made the scapegoats of the financial gangsters who bankrupted this country. we cannot be squeezed any more. Personal Assistants are being frozen, cut and not given to those disabled people who desperately need them. now home helps and home care packages. many will have to go into nursing homes which will cost the state FAR MORE. it is ludicrous. please inform everyone of the socialist workers party march for home helps. lets expand it to cover all support services being cut for disabled, sick and elderly. stand up and shout “enough is enough”

Here we go again.

Makes me do mad when they talk s out taking hours from the home help and personal care
What about cutting the senators like Edna said and cutting Tds wages and his own doesn’t he get paid more than Obama for gods sake start from the top up instead of the bottom up all this government do is take away from the needy

Makes me so mad the hospitals will be out the door what are they thinking assh%les :(

it is horrendous. there is no reason for this, i just believe it cannot go ahead and people have to stand by all of us who need these home helps and need them BADLY, not just one hour can be taken in cuts, not one. i was at the pre-budget disability groups launch and Kathleen Lynch was there, i just knew she knew she was keeping her distance, a hint that she couldnt guaruntee more cuts ahead but i never dreamt on this scale, a march is planned so all who actually feel strongly about this, do join us on wednes 17th. its despicable.

i am cutting and pasting this from the SWP website. I am not a party member…I am just disabled and frightened. Please join the walk.

The home helps themselves are protesting again on Weds Oct 17th at 3pm in O Connell St and will hopefully join the Nov 24th pre budget march with a massive contingent of workers and supporters. SIPTU need to roll in behind these demonstations and throw their full weight into resisting this cutbacks and the privatisation of our essential services.

Let’s keep the pressure on!

Can you poster your area for the protests? Or if you can take some leaflets and posters:
John Lyons PBP 0877729292

If you want to get organised and join the socialists. Text JOIN to 0863074060

But the boys will still be propping up the Dail bar, oh well only another €12.5 billion more cuts to come.

Yet again the vulnerable and hard working suffer. We are all aware of the term “Let’s bite the hand of those that feed us” Why not just got full hog and feed them to the sharks.!!

Please join the Home Help / home Care Action group on Facebook (see link above) & join this protest, Many Thanks folks! :-)

http://m.facebook.com/?_rdr#!/groups/274929942626624?__user=595199814

Oops! Sorry for double post!!

Are home help paid nearly €18 per
hour ?