no doubt reilly is ineffective. you would have to question his ability and judgement given his “outside” interests.

that said the bigger issue is the persistent inept performance of kenny and gilmore in particular.

O’Reilly’s poster in the next general election should read, “nothing done! Didn’t know what to do!”

Labour will not be saved by walking off in a huff. They are set to be decimated at the next general election. They missed their chance to give the Irish people a real third choice in politics by going into coalition with Fine Gael. They would have been better served forming a strong opposition and biding their time. “Gilmore for Taoiseach” never seemed further away.

I knew there was something up when Pat Rabbitte said on Matt Cooper show “if the government make it into next year” or something very close to it, this he quickly corrected.

Is this the beginning of the end? Are we ready for more sh1te talk about Labours way bla bla bla.

Get Reilly out and if the government is still intact get someone in who is no afraid to take on the health service head on, and I don’t mean from the bottom up but from the very top down.

Ah… Labour must have completed their campaign to get their chums & cronies onto state boards and the law benches. I Think it takes about two years for a sitting TD to qualify for a pension

Of course there’s no mention from Labour of the €8 million that the citizens of this state will pay this month to unsecured bondholders at Bank of Ireland where Minister Reilly has defaulted on loans of €1.9 million.

Perhaps Mick Wallace might suggest that he apportion half his Dail salary to repay it!

Oh I love ministerial resignations. The drama lol. That hogan gob shite should resign to!!

The whole thing is a catastrophe. Parties bicker and point the finger of blame and they maybe right he is probably an incompetent Minister but you know what the greatest tragedy in all this? The greatest injustice is the impact on those who are sick. on the disabled and the old. In short the most vulnerable people in Irish society have to face more suffering and long waiting lists and even possibly an early grave. This is totally wrong and it is tragic and no matter who is to blame politicians are milking this issue now not to alleviate the suffering of these people but to score points and blame each other. For Gods sake think of the impact and the pain ye are causing the citizens of this country who worked hard to build it up and did their share in community and society. Its beyond me now the way this whole mess is flaring up again and the same innocent people will feel the pain not the politicians who can well afford private health care and they will never depend on the HSE for anything. Only us the poor fools who have no choice have to face a disintegrating health service.

The illusion of choice always seems to satisfy the electorate, unfortunately reilly and labours sucessors will dish out more of the same, perhaps a bit more polished, just puppets for berlin to make sing and dance. This country will cease functioning before the people stand up for themselves.

I’m not a fan of Reilly at all but Labour are being completely hypocritical on this one. They’re in government. They know that Reilly has a limited budget to play with and there’s no way they would be prepared to break the Croke Park agreement as they’re the party of the unions. So what exactly do they expect the Health Minister to do? The savings need to come from somewhere. They’ve allowed the taxpayer carry a burden of debt that they did not create. They’ve raised taxes on people that are struggling already and imposed cuts on some of most vulnerable in departments with Labour Ministers (Social Welfare, education etc.). However, they refuse to even consider making redundant a lot of the bureaucrats within our public sector that we don’t need and they refuse to consider cutting the pay of some of our higher paid public sector workers because of an unfair agreement entered into with their union friends by the last government.

James Reilly as IMO Chief negotiated the present contracts he hasn’t the political will to cut their pay as he told the consultants on October 8th last year that they would be saved from wage cuts . Last Friday he blamed high salaries for the cause of health cuts whilst doing nothing about the salaries . The Dail should be re-called early to discuss the crisis in the health service and Minister Reilly’s handling of it .

Micheal Martin. The man who set up the HSE so he could hide behind it. The man who refused to meet or in any way engage with the victims of barbaric medical treatments in Louth.

A man who was noted for refusing to take decisions in the Dept. and who cost us billions in wasted revenue.

Sorry here Micheal I’m no fan o’Reilly and his hubris but I’m not going to let a shi7 house rat like you tell that bluebottle fly that they are unhygienic.

Now why don’t you run along back down the hole that you came from, Bertie needs a cup of tea.

Fianna Fáil is not relevant. They are not a real opposition party.

Reilly is a terrible politician and Fine Gael will never get my vote – but Michaél Martin wants you to forget that the party he leads are the ones who destroyed this country. It’s because of him and people like him that the government needs to make cuts. He just wants your votes so he can do it all again, and if you pick Fianna Fáil next time, you deserve the mess we’re in. That snake using the words “moral bankruptcy” makes me sick.

People keep saying how Labour will be decimated in the next election. That’d mean something if there was another choice, but in this democracy, we only get to vote for the other dictator. We need a voters strike where if there’s less than a 40% turnout, the government can be called illigit and we’ll have direct democracy until someone other than that obese, scruffy looking ‘minister’ shows up.

Labour should have known if you go to bed with the dogs you get up with the fleas,,, they are now Infested.

Having seen the entitlements he is letting the public servants keep like an 800 euro tool allowance per year and 1.75 euro per day to eat lunch at your desk, an allowance of €3,087 a year to meat inspectors to compensate for the smell in meat factories and bone meal plants, Department of Environment: an eating on-site allowance of €988 a year where canteen facilities are not available I never thought would say this but maybe It’s time for Sien Fien to have a go at this. At least you know they wont back down. I was in Naas hospital last night as my mother had taken ill. The nurse’s when i asked how long until she saw a doctor told me there are people here since 2pm on Friday still on trolleys that haven’t seen a doctor. I took a picture on my phone of my mothers trolley against a door with a large sign saying, Do not block this door with trolleys as it is a fire risk. Seeing how short staffed they are and then reading how they have let them keep these intitlement I am disgusted and I hope the people who make thee false claims feel ashamed. My partner also works for the HSE in a department which has been slaughtered by cuts. I think we are at the point now where the unions should be seen as a threat to the health of people like my mother. The look on my fathers face trying to deal with that last night is something i wont forget

Mary Harney just about held the HSE together by being able to make the hard calls, Reilly is just a shill for consultants and HSE bigwigs.

Good riddance Reilly

So people have you learned from the mistakes of voting FG / FF / LAB?

Says the party that allowed Mary Harney to stay in the position for as long as she did.
Don’t get me wrong I’m not defending O’Reilly, or the rest of the FG/LAB shower, but any criticism FF throws at the government rings hollow after their apocalyptic tenure.

No matter how much I dislike Reilly’s way of handling things, as soon as FF starts to open their mouth I tent to look at the opposite. That party and it’s former ministers should be in jail, not Leinster house…

Michael Martin. When is he going to go away for good. FF will only have a chance when the hangers on are gone. The man has no credibility.

Is there anyone out there that can do a better job?

Out of all the government ministers that should resign, I don’t think this is one nor at the very least should this be the issue that causes him to fall on his own sword tbh. He is a Minister of Health in a government that is dealing with the worse economic crisis of our time, having taken over from a Fianna Fail government that put us into this unholy mess. He has also inherited a post that was left in another unholy state by Martin and his Fianna Fail colleagues.

Is that sufficient? No, but he is having to insist that the HSE meets its budgetary requirements that it so far hasn’t. So either the HSE sets a budget with tough cuts on the elderly and less well off or he brings up the hot potato of an issue – dealing with the unions and the big wages they have. He has indicated that in order to tackle the unions and wages than Croke Park needs to be re-negotiated. This causes Labour to step in and say “Absolutely not, we draw the line firmly here” all because they don’t want to ruffle the Unions feathers.

Which is more important, Labour? Protecting the Unions and the big wigs in the public service or letting the government take them onto make greater improvements and savings in the public sector so that cuts and savings wont need to hit the less well off? Should the elderly, the disabled, and hospitals suffer just because Labour want to protect their buddies? Labour, for the first time, are sticking to their guns: Touch the unions and we walk.

I also think there is great hypocrisy on theJournal. This is what people having been calling for – those who can take a hit, should take a hit. Yet, when a government Minister proposes just that, people are calling for his head!

FF really need to remember who caused the f*ck up in the first place and remember that the HSE was one of their members babies. Time for FF, FG and Labour to do one!

So if people display how they dispise what FF done to our country,they’re labelled “Looney”by a FF supporter,i’m shocked.

So today is the day that the ordinary FF hacks come back out from under their rocks and attempt to rejoin the great debate. I don’t want any FF supporters to think for a moment that the Irish voter has forgotten what you have done to this country. We don’t want your lies and corruption any more.

When will the day FINALLY come that the government just gets out of healthcare?

And please statists, don’t come at me with your “then boo-hoo the corporate healthcare companies will charge me for healthcare”

Let’s bring personal responsibility to the table. Look after yourself and stop depending on a useless corrupt state to try and run a monstrosity of a bureaucracy.

Let’s all blame Fianna Fail when will people open there eyes and realise we are 18 months into a new government, FG and Lab promised real change new politics but what have we got but lies and blame FF, they need to take some responsibility for there actions not anybody else’s, Micheal Martin is perfectly right to challenge the health minister because he has made a complete shambles of his portfolio since coming in. FG and Lab are in government now not FF so cop the hell onto yourselves.

http://www.change.org/petitions/supporting-the-irish-nation-step-down-from-government#share?utm_source=guides&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_summary

Reilly is clearly incompetent however the words from the Labour Party’s Leader, Chairman and numerous TDs are utterly sickening as it is their insistence on protecting the Croke Park Agreement that is putting the salaries of their well paid union buddies before the lives of sick and vulnerable citizens.

How many will have to die before the Labour Party allow the renegotiation clause to be triggered?

James Connolly must be spinning in his grave at the betrayal of his ideals.

Arjun
My comments on here are my own that is why I didnt sign as secretary of North Navan Cumann a position I am proud to hold as well as that of Secretary of Navan West CC for FF.
Have you any political affiliation .

Looneys haha

@Norman looneys was referred to the guys who post on here who are not man enough to identify themselves but hide behind pseudo names, I’m proud of what position i hold as local CDC chairperson, I show my face and will not hide behind a false name.