Absolute blatant don’t give a s#^%t..
Animal farm comes to mind..

Brian Hayes FG TD attempt on the news yesterday:

“The HSE made the decisions but somehow the HSE Board was not informed of the HSE decisions”

I’m not joking.

the vested interests seem to lie in making themselves look good – regardless to the cost to the public. The stupid graduate nurse scheme ( only benefit from that pile of crap was to politicians and HSE knob head managers who wanted to point at it and say ‘look, Im doing something!’) The whole recruitment ban which only made the agencies rich and saved no money for the HSE while the public waited on trollies in A&E
Aine – your money saving letter obviously was not head line grabbing enough for these show walruses (ponies)

Most of FF And FG are all out of the same stable, went to school and/or university together socialize together and are probably related. Stroke is in the genes

There was a Lotto winner in Micheal Martin’s constituency recently. I demand it is investigated.

Also a school was painted in Roscommon, we must identify if any Fine Gael representatives were in any way connected, or party donors have any link to either the paint, the brushes or the painter. It must be corruption of the highest order.

You both seem to be missing the point (possibly wilfully)… If there are official HSE and Department of Health criteria in place to determine areas that are priorities for investment in healthcare facilities and these criteria were ignored in favour of stroke politics, that’s a serious issue. That is an Ireland the electorate thought it was voting to get rid of in the last general election.

To say that I’ve never seen anyone with a neck of such solid brass as O’Reilly’s is really saying something in post-Fianna Fáil Ireland.

arb
all we want to see is the criteria
simple as

It’s the “fast track” element in combination of HSE board not informed yet, kind of thing.
I’m sure the people in Wexford are delighted and couldn’t care less, but for others who see their facilities disappear or stretched have every right to question these ministers motives.

Róisín

O’Reilly has such a brass neck because he supported Hr. Kenny in the FG leadership challenage a few years ago. O’Reilly knows that Hr. Kenny will support him no matter what he does as a thank you for keeping him in the FG leadership role.

The only way to stop this kind of thing from hppenning is to have the total party membership elect their leader and not just the few Leinster House elite.

Yes there should be a party leader in Leinster House, but that should not mean that person should be the defacto party leader.

At the expense of others? Not a good way to invest in public health provision. Hogan won’t stand again so he is pushing all this through so he can be a hero in kk.

The closure of Roscommon A&E paid for these upgrades. Is that right?

Our hospital? lucky you if these hospitals are in your constituency. My local hospital is currently overburdened, over worked and a complete mess. Hospitals should be fast tracked based on urgency of need – if it turns out that another hospital is worse than my closest (only) hospital then I would have no issue with that hospital being upgraded first. Its when this priority depends only on how prominent your local TD is in government that there is an issue.

Imagine if your hospital was closed down and another new one opened up 80 miles away from you in a Governments Ministers constituency. Would you feel those decisions were fair play?

Please dont bang on about the Roscommon A&E. That area is completely serviced and it needed to be closed down.. End of story… The upgrades in question were planned and in the budget and who cares if the work was accelerated once it gets done..

@declan cotter
parish pump stroke pulling blueshirts like you coulden’t give a toss that because thats the way you people do things

The budget is in December and the decision was made in June. I live in Dublin so Roscommon’s situation does not directly affect me. Of course it had nothing to do with Denis Naughten, Roscommon’s former FG TD, supporting Bruton in the heave against Kenny. Reilly and Hogan supported Kenny who held on by 3 votes. Kenny and his cronies are not pleasant people to mess with. Of course nothing will happen to Reilly or Hogan as if it did Kenny would be gone in a flash. So the message is clear the lads can keep on stroking until the next election. You can try spin it whatever way you want but the polls are trending against the people you support so enjoy it while it lasts as the clock is ticking.

“Please dont bang on about the Roscommon A&E. That area is completely serviced and it needed to be closed down.. End of story… The upgrades in question were planned and in the budget and who cares if the work was accelerated once it gets done..”

Declan Cotter, you’ve lost all rights to discuss about the government after a sick comment like that. Supporting failed policies is one thing, but to go so far as to support the same state-sponsored corruption which landed Ireland in the mess it is in is completely disgusting. If this happened in ANY other European country there would be investigations and the minister responsible would be either sacked or shamed into resigning. This is blatant corruption and there’s no window dressing it.

Jason you are wasting your time with Declan Cotter
a dyed in the wool blueshirt who will put anyones expense before his parties.
totally devoid of any moral backbone

Sure thing Brian. I’d say its definitely just a coincidence that these two specific hospitals were fast tracked.

Pity he couldn’t of fast tracked something that would benefit the country / those outside of the cabinet. Strokey , Strokey, stroke stroke.

Fine Gael = dirty crooked politics

Brian, before lecturing anyone consider these facts: Reilly is attempting to downgrade Waterford Regional Hospital. If it occurs people with some injuries will have to travel to either Dublin or Cork. From a major city with 100,000 in it hinterland.

Then a hospital in Kilkenny town is fast tracked for an upgrade. The gone of Phil Hogan. Enough facts for you? This Government ride into office declaring that stroke politics were over. It seems not.

I am not lecturing anyone. The last government left a sour taste in all our mouths including my own and I was trying my damnedest to change from being ultra cynical to opening my mind.Nobady including me believes that closing ERs is a good idea .

No

i cant wait to hear the goobledegook and gibberish fall out of his winos face…

Limofax
Is that an equation or something more obtuse?

It’s the damn truth! And you know it Rodgers :) right up to your dirty little neck in it and its all coming out in the white wash.

Ryan O’
I’ll have you know that my neck is of modest and proportionate size and scrubbed daily. I shower at least once and most days twice.
Now I will admit that my neck is hard as I have to deal with constant abuse for simply expressing myself in a democratic and free country.
Tough isn’t it?

Ya can’t stand the heat then get out of the kitchen.

As for democratic free speech, we’re all entitled to that. Which IMO is a great thing, it gives ordinary citizens the chance to call a spade a spade, especially in this case where corruption/stroke politics and back handers are rife. It’ll all come out in the white wash…..the white wash of the lying cheating FG annihilation next local and GE.

As you were minester

If the presence of a minister results in extra houses being built, or schools or hospitals getting upgraded, that’s only a bad thing if other areas are egregiously neglected. The reality is that neglect can and does happen. That’s why the system has to be changed. No funding for Roscommon but in the very same month it was closed funding is made available for Ministers constituencies. It’s simple wrong.

Jesus Enda have you nothing better to do.

Obviously a Fine Gael party member. How else could you defend this?

Bulldog O’Reilly? WTF? Seriously. Have people learned nothing about how corrupt this country actually is?

Kevin, the population in Roscommon does not warant the service end of story…You seem to think its all right for highly populated areas to suffer once Roscommon is looked after… I say ‘NO’ to that. The areas in question are much higher up the chain than Roscommon in merit and thus recieve the funding.

Hard change? You know nothing!!! Doing favours for ur mates is not in the best interest of this country and I don’t care what county it’s in. If he was the bulldog you make him out to be he’d take on the consultants who he continues to pay full salaries to while they earn thousands in private hospitals. He’s a bully but not a bulldog me thinks.

Bull Dog O’Reilly?
More like sad old knackered mongrel O’Reilly

Kevin, Roscommon was not safe as a hospital. In order for me to be a safe practitioner I need to be doing so many of each procedure I’m allowed do per day or week or year. The simple problem with Roscommon was that those procedures were not achieved and so the staff were not safe practicing procedures that they should be able to do quite literally with their eyes closed. If I only see sprained ankles and minor coughs, I only know how to deal with sprained ankles and minor coughs, therefore I’ve down skilled. That’s not good for the staff and its certainly not good enough for the patient.
In Ireland there is a vast overstocking of inappropriate services. Roscommon doesn’t need an A&E unit, it needs an efficient AMAU and MIU. That’s all the majority of hospitals in Ireland need. A&E’s should be reserved for national referral centres, where the majority of services can be accessed in the one place, where 24hr access to emergency theatres, emergency diagnostics, 24hr anaesthetics, radiology, labs, the whole 9 yards.
A very good rule of thumb is if your local A&E closes at 5pm, you don’t need it. It’s inappropriate. You need an AMAU and an MIU.

@ James

So Kilkenny & Wexford are safer than Roscommon because of what exactly? FUNDING

Do you approve of Wexford moving ahead of Waterford hospital. If so on what basis?

Cowboys Ted a bunch of cowboys !

Kevin, funding has utterly nothing to do with how safe an A&E unit is. If the patients are not using it (as figures suggest) it’s not safe, simple as.
As regards Wexford and Kilkenny, I don’t know how busy they are. What I do know is that there are tertiary referral centres in this country that are in far worse condition than any of Wexford, Kilkenny and Roscommon, and they should be an absolute priority over any backward politic stroking.
No offence intended to the people of Wexford, Kilkenny and Roscommon, but your access units that close at 6pm are palaces in comparison to the A&E in my hospital, and my hospital can’t close, because not alone does it serve half of Dublin, it serves half the country in many disciplines.

Are you his love child? Or just simply ridiculous

James you are not a practitioner, you’re a nurse. Why is your picture depicting you as a surgeon. Go back to college if you want to be a doctor. We had this conversation yesterday. Stop spoofing.

Simon, Theatre Nurses have to wear scrubs and masks, just like anyone else who’s in theatre. Nurses aren’t just bum-wipers and bed-changers.

I completely disagree with you James Connolly. The present problem we are experiencing in ED is the cutbacks. They closed some acute hospital beds. They reduced the medical staff. They closed some emergency services to other hospitals. Now your idea of putting AMU is nonsense. There is no difference from a normal wards that they closed and putting AMU. Forget those minor injuries you mentioned that would down skill you. If someone has a life threatening problem, lives 100 km away from ED, ambulance base is between this distance. You’ll be driving like speedy gonzales. This person will be in rigor mortis when he arrives in ED.

Simon,
I perceive your view of the nursing profession as rather offensive.
Nursing as you see it, is holding hands and cleaning patients and getting puked on and vomited on and just being a general Florence Nightingale, would I be correct?
I am actually a doctor: I’m a Doctor of Advanced Nursing Practice in Anesthesia which means I rarely carry out the traditional nursing duties (or rather traditional as you see).
The picture you see is of me, I am wearing a pair of goggles, a mask, gloves, scrubs, the same as anyone else who goes into the OR, it is a sterile environment, that doesn’t exclude me from getting dressed in the appropriate paraphernalia.
You should have a conversation with a nurse sometime. It wouldn’t do your outlook on life a bit of harm.
Regards.

Bombacho,
The problem that you describe (the downward spiral) was not due to cutbacks, it was due to the fact that healthcare has advanced to the stage where it is no longer sufficient for a practitioner to be “alright” at what they do, they have to be experts. In order to be an expert at what you do, you have to be actively dealing with a vast array of conditions that do not present in a local hospital, and if they do, could never be dealt with sufficiently in a local hospital so are referred to a national referral centre.
With regards fast access to care, yes are entitled to such a thing, I would add a word in there and I would say you are entitled to fast access to appropriate care. There is no point in getting to a hospital quickly only to find that you hang around for a day (deteriorating) before referral to the appropriate service in a major hospital. Pre-hospital care (ambulatory care) has improved to the extent that ambulances are essentially ICU’s on wheels and advanced paramedics can do more for you on the side of the road (literally) than the best consultant will ever be able to do in an inappropriate care setting.
If you are going to die on the way to a major referral centre you are most definitely going to die in the local hospital that cannot deal with you appropriately.
As regards the AMAU/MIU, local hospitals are brilliant at dealing with these, they are more efficient at dealing with minor injuries and acute issues than a major hospital will ever be.

Bombacho,
Indeed I am still a nurse, correct. I did not suggest I wasn’t, I said I am a doctor – in ANPA. To be a doctor in such a thing you need to be a nurse.
As regards an AMAU – the purpose of such a unit is to work-up, diagnose, treat and discharge the patient in one day – I’m not sure what hospital you go to but the majority of patients on a ward are not discharged in one day (the national average is 2 weeks per inpatient stay). AMAU is a world different from a hospital ward.
The rest of your comment is general piffle, which I am not going to dignify with a response, as you clearly do not know what it is any nurse of any level does, never mind what it is that I do.
Good luck.

You most definitely did suggest that you were more than a nurse by sayi g you were a doctor James. I couldn’t stop you from defending yourself yesterday as to how amazing you were but now that someone else with more granular knowledge of your nurse role has more probing observations you clam up. Sounds like he must have nailed your ‘Doctor’ qualification meaning.

Kevin
The problem with Roscommon wasn’t Funding. Due to its size age and small catchment area no young doctors in training wanted anything to do with it and the few Consultants there were approaching retirement without proper cover. The game was up when there were questions as to whether the Medical Defense Fund would cover a doctor in the event of a negligence due to inadequate staffing.
You might recall Hospitals such as Ennis having only one Anaesthetist. What would happen if he was sick or away on holidays?
The reality is we want a full service Hospital at every street corner and we demand that our politicians give them to us!