I have been doing home help for 20 years and we had this problem 3years ago and eighteen months ago and nothing has changed protest after protest we get no where if Mr o’Reilly was to get of his butt and do the rounds with us he might see whats going on in this country it’s easy sitting behind a desk but come into the real world and see reality but it won’t happen !!!

Joanne
We could always make a difference. Caring for the elderly has become big business. Your employment was probably through a company that charge substantial fees over and above your hourly rate as the levels of voluntary care of senior citizens just fades away. Everything today is about money while our value system as a village community disappears. When did we ever believe we had enough wealth to provide these services and particularly when we had such an appalling level of participation in Pensions for example. Whatever people wish to believe there are two inescapable facts in Ireland today. The first is our State is currently spending more money that we earn and nobody wants to lend us any other than Friends who have strings attached. Secondly we have become a selfish society where our elderly are isolated and in need of State services because we don’t befriend them in our own Communities. Those State services have to be financially curtailed curtailed because we want to maintain selfish Agreements for overpaid Public Servants while recipient of Social Welfare payments and benefits take more than twice their neighbours in Northern Ireland.
And people prefer to blame their politicians for these inequalities rather than themselves.

Mick,

Social welfare was already reduced from €204 in 2009 to €188 right now. The biggest drain on the country is the public sector salaries. I’m not trying to attack the low to medium income workers. It’s those earning above €80K and their quangos. But Kenny’s gang wants their votes.

Capitalism destroyed Ireland because it was and still is all about money.

Mick we are spending an awful amount of money on unsecured bond holders should we not stop that as well?

Tim…in simple terms there are not enough people earning over 80k in the public sector..So cutting thier wages will have little or no effect..And for the record people earning over 65k already pay the significant majority of income tax in this country already..

No, it is because we are in a republic rather than a full democracy. In a republic the people do not make every decision, rather they make the most important ones, like who makes all the smaller decisions, ie a general election.

Wonderous thing about any democracy, the people get the government they deserve, we voted FG/Lab in, we only have ourselves to blame

Speak for yourself vocal outrage, I didn’t vote for either of those parties so why would I blame myself for the state we’re in? Although, same teet different calf. It doesn’t matter who’s gettin paid the giant salaries so long as they don’t disobey the IMF overlords and our pocket money isn’t taken away

Just remember the IMF is far from cuddly,but they wanted us to burn the unsecured bondholders.Guess who didn’t.

Norman, please clarify? Who said we could not burn the bondholders again?? You seem to be in the know??? Must have been all those meeting were you?
Oh I forgot…Enda Kenny wants to pay them back so he can personally casue pain and hardship in Ireland…Of course I should have known….
Some of the comments on this website….Honestly

“We” starts with people like you Kevin, but don’t stop with the Journal. Governments live off the fact that individual people will complain, but are unlikely to form popular movements, not unlike the way banks get away with enforcing charges on account holders despite the fact that they use our deposits to fund their speculation in financial markets which ultimately creates their wealth. Power to the people I say!

Man wasn’t on the moon in 65…your supposed to be a barman..ain’t barmen supposed to be good at general knowledge?

I reckon if this government was capable of feeling shame we would have had a snap election by now.

Irish people must resist Germany’s intervention in our society.

Richard great comment, but i believe it was ’69 easy number to remember.

Why take the piss? A very serious matter is the subject of this article.
The government thrives when the people loose focus.
All credit to the protesters.

Could someone help me here? Is this a protest against job losses or reduced services to elderly patients in their homes?

Mick if you take the time to look at the pictures and read what’s on the posters they are holding you’ll have answered your own question.

I get it Mick it was a rhetorical question,you didn’t want an answer just the opportunity to say it.

In fairness Mick if you don’t know the answer to your own question you are beyond help.

Tim….Stop peddling your SF muck on here….I wont vote for SF or Joe Higgins and his band of merry wasters…Pack it in…Your a bore!!!