The honeymoon is over for this government and the reality is hitting home. The have had issues in the past week with Richard Bruton’s jobs initiative, Varadkar’s slip of the tongue, Phil Hogan’s household charges and now this. This government was elected to make tough decisions and they need to show that they have the balls to do so. If they dont come to agreement, communicate and push through tough measures in the first 18 months the government won’t last too long and the country will be in poorer condition when the next election comes around.

He was a disgrace, heard it all this morning on ocean fm. To hang up the phone on the people who elected him doesn’t show much respect.

Yes a center of excellence will work if they are properly located! And thats the problem with the north-west…we don’t have one yet we need it! It is not acceptable that the people of the north-west have to travel further than any other patients in need of treatment. As the slogan goes “death by geography”. These things should not be decided on by the population of the area but by the distance that people would have to travel. I’m not sure what part of the country you are from but you clearly are not aware of the state of the roads from Donegal through Leitrim, Sligo, Mayo to Galway! They are a disgrace and their is no sign of any great improvements in the near future! I really feel for the poor cancer sufferers who have to use those narrow twisty roads.

Really its is not fair to the people of the north-west, we deserve the same services as the rest of the country on our doorstep!

John Perry is the local TD where I live, and he is one of those “little kings” the family own, apub, the undertaker, a supermarket, another Pub/Hotel, some land etc etc. And he is elected every time on promises that are broken. But, the locals have now had enough, if he does not return Cancer Services to Sligo General as promised he should find another career very quickly.
This is not the first time he has been in a Radio ontroversy, think it was the same station too; when a woman was on air complaining about planning permission been given to build more houses when estates around Ballymote were already littered with empty houses. He came on air and was very nasty, and said untruths about the woman, she was on anonimously and he outed her. He ended up giving a fair sized donation to the charities of her choice.
His father was a lovely man.

I left Ireland in 1999 and now live and work in Denmark. The interesting thing for me is that unless things start being done soon you guys will run out of parties to vote for. FF/Greens failed and if FG/Lab also fail then what’s left? SF, Independents? To me from a distance it seems like incompetence, dishonesty and lack of backbone are endemic in the Dáil. Over here politicians get kicked out of parliament if they are caught drunk driving and go to jail for any financial impropriety. Maybe the system needs to change now that Irish society have had their fill of gombeen politics. Any ideas anyone?

Now the local people who heard this, so called public representative, thinks of the people who voted for him..typical of his ilk,making promises pre election,and once elected,shows contempt for the people who elected him in.did we really think fg,would be able to do the job any better then ff,
They are both useless old school parties.that should disband,and give our country a future.

Pathetic to hang up on live radio,

To all those FG supporters, interesting to see and hear so many promises turn to dust

Can I be the first to say, who?

Also I’m in favour of centralising cancer services as it is with a load of small centres dotted around the country people aren’t getting the treatment they need, this is why we have these misdiagnosis scandals, by centralising them, yes people have to travel further but their quality of care is much better.

John Perry held his presconference today, and it was made quite plain to him that the electorate beleive that they have been lied to by him, for the sole purpose of getting himself elected and a ministerial position.

Sligo Cancer Services Supportes were very vocal in making it plain to John Perry that they voted for him solely on his promise to RETURN the Cancer Services to Sligo withing 100 days and for no other reason.

Perry mumbled through services that were still available and that he was working on the situation which he claimed was complex. Well, John it wasn’t that complex when it was taken away, all the equipment and staff are still there and so are most of the patients records.

Its now time for this minister to resign his position.

It was silly to hang up on live radio as it doesn’t exactly make him look very good but i think it would was stupid of the presenter to be accusing his party of breaking this election promise when they have not been government for 100 days yet. I know they have broken a few election promises so far and if they break this one, they deserve all the criticism they have thrown at them. I’d prefer to give them a chance first though before judging them.

It is far better for patients to go to Centres of Excellence for cancer treatment than centres which do not have the clinical services, patient numbers or clinical expertise.

If you or a member of your family had cancer and you knew that by attending a hospital in i.e. Dublin or Galway had better success rates or clinical outcomes. Why, because they had the clinical expertise due to patient numbers or throughput, reserach, necessary infrastructure and biomedical equipment to treat you/ your family member’s cancer.

Which Center would you attend and would you be willing to make that journey to ensure that you and/your family member got the best treatment, in terms of outcomes?
Going to the local hospital, however convenient does not if indeed ever translate into good outcomes for you or your family. It’s a no brainer, to be honest.

How did this guy get elected?

Your headline is inaccurate and misleading. John Perry is not a Minister of Government, he is a Minister of State.