‘Minister Reilly thanked Ms Shortall for the considerable amount of hard work she had undertaken.’

i presume he is referring to the difficulties and the hard work that would be involved when you are trying to work with an ignoramus like him

The July letter warrants more detailed analysis then has so far been afforded by the media. The Shortall position is that Minister O’Reilly did not inform her of the criteria he used to select the additional 15 sites. At best the the O’Reilly letter outlines criteria for increasing from 20 to 35. Nowhere does his letter address the criteria used for the selection of the particular sites

The sheer NECK of it…..unbelievable !

Pat Mustard

Yes man in place ,full steam ahead, steady as she goes….Aye Aye captain.

What a plonker

Another labour TD who will lie down and let Fine Gael walk all over them. Dr Reilly, Phil Hogan and the rest will continue their bully boy tactics while Ireland is pissed down the euro drain. James Reilly has huge interest in these primary care centres and stands to make huge financial and possibly political gain from having two of them in his constituency… FF politics in a FG suit!

Thanks? Reilly, up ur arse!

I can only imagine the interview went something like this,

‘Do you know how to answer ‘Yes’ to all health related issues proposed by the good Doctor Reilly?’

if you heard alex defending the 800+ allowances on newstalk last week …and admitting he had not read any documentation on the matter ….you would not hold much hope for health …..i think he is a complete spoofer. shorthall was shafted and that is terrible …. new politics my eye.

Werewolf Reilly looks down his hairy nostrils at shorthall no one was going to tell him how to run Health as he is a Doctor! God help us with this arrogant idiot in charge!

Who’s Alex white ….. !!! Pat the bungee rabbit is keeping quiet

James Reilly get out of politics now you are a disgrace to the medical profession and a traitor to our Country

Alex White is an ex barrister, ex Gay Byrne producer who worries about his hair; One of the talking points in my electoral campaigns over the years has been hair. Many people reach middle age and face a hair shortage. I, on the other hand, have volumes of it. It grows like wildfire and can be very recalcitrant. Keeping it in check is sometimes a full-time job. A couple of weeks ago, I was on television commenting on the implosion of Brian Cowen’s regime. Many of the comments I received afterwards made some covert or overt reference to my hair. My wife asked me why I had brought a toilet brush into studio with me. Others suggested that my hair formed a kind of halo around my head. Not wishing to be thought of as St. Alex it was straight down to the hairdressers for not so much a trim, as a major cutback!. The hair (yes, it is spoken of in the third person from time to time) is sitting back in place again temporarily but no doubt, I will have to get it seen to again before Election Day.

really is the flava of the month

would she have quit if this had happened before she reached the quota of days in office, to be entitled to a ministers pension for the rest of her life.

A pig of a man

YES minister

It’s funny the number of people who consider tbhemselves irreplaceable when they leave an organisation. Roisin Who?

Considering she only picked 20 locations for 20 centres, despite the fact that it was common knowledge that there would be difficulty getting doctors to sign up all the centres due to their location. If the doctors don’t sign up to a location it is not going to be built. She screwed up and Reily had to fix it. She then complains she wasn’t consulted while he was fixing her screw up. She should have been fired for incompetence without a 3000 a month pension for the rest of her life.