Yes. He should go before he is entitled to a ministers pension.
Bad enough we are still paying for ahern,cowen and all the other twisted crooks that are sneering at us.

shouldnt resign he should be sacked

He’s completely unfit for any public office.
From today’s Indo report, it looks like he’s trying to make sure that if he goes down, he doesn’t go down alone. Bring it on, I say!

Yes Yes Yes ,he should of gone not Roshin Shortall who has been totally vindicated …and he should take Eamonn Gilmore with him for not having the guts to support his own junior minister .

If it was another country he would of resigned already.

Another country he would have been sacked for conflict of interest once the first story came out!!

In any other country he would be sacked !!!!

He is a disgraceful example of stroke politics and gombeenism. The government promised a new dawn but delivered more of the same.Reilly should resign and be replaced so we can have a minister with honesty and integrity

It’s hard to know if he should resign. The longer this goes on the bigger hole they all dig for themselves. Now that hogan has been involved it would be no surprise if lowry is lurking around some land deal or other. I mean right now O’reilly could bend gilmore over and ride him like a auld donkey around dail eireann if any labour deputy complained it would be them that would suffer. talking about primary health care centres after almost 800,000 spent while they were on hoildays is a bit rich

What I take from this is that Enda wanted to keep Roscommon votes after letting them down ( The good doctor re elected) & put one in Killkenny to help save Big Phil..

This would ensure his 2 pillars who saved him from the leadership challenge would be in place to protect him from the young guns?

Just what it appears like from that I’m reading…

I don’t understand why this issue is still dragging along. This man needs to go, if not he should be fired by end of the weekend. Enda needs to grow some balls .

Now he is saying he consulted Gilmore and Kenny in July.Funny,you would think someone would have mentioned this before now.I mean how stupid does he think we are ???

It is coming very clear why we didn’t vote for these guys for 13 years.

why do our health ministers always look so unhealthy…mary harney anyone?

The controversy around him is distracting from anything meaningful. The sick citizens of Ireland who have been abandoned by his system deserve better than this. Reilly out.

Stroke and parish politics will always be here as long as we have our current system , why not vote for a president then let him/her employ a cabinet who are not worried about re election , and might actually get things done

No way should he resign. Absolutely no way.
He should be sacked.

The Irish government is making the mafia look clean

i cant believe that nearly half of those polled have said he should stay?? he shoukd have gone a long time ago!!! maybe it was the way the question was phrased?

They all should, Stroke politics to be re-elected and Parish pump at its best! They all getting a chance to get Care centre, to keep the locals happy and the rest of us suffer. They make FF look like saints, then trying to help their friends out by buying their sites. I am no labour/FF/FG/SF ‘r, but they whole system is crooked and the TD’s just as rotten!

I already had the poll done before I read the last sentence, and the second last sentence is:
“When we asked you last month if you thought James Reilly should remain on as Minister for Health, 51 per cent of you said No, 17 per cent said Yes and 30 per cent weren’t sure.”
Therefore I pressed “No” because I don’t think he should remain on as Minister for Health, and then I read on to find out that the question was actually:
“Should James Reilly resign?”

I bet that’s why the poll is not reflecting the views of literally everyone. I recommend taking it down and starting again, but with a less misleading wording. Sorry for being too enthusiastic!

Polls at this stage are irrelevant as the guys in power have what THEY want. Lowery, Haughey, Bertie, Burke, Olivia Mitchell, Quinn, Lawlor, Healy Reas, etc all got what they they set out to achieve – Power and money. Not too many of these guys delivering “Meals on Wheels” today.

he cant lose his job. remember what happened when he go fired from being a milkman for riding all those women and Dougle had to drive the milkfloat, and it had a bomb on it. And there was a big pile of boxes in the middle of the road.

Definitely something wrong with the poll when you compare the comments…

I just think it’s an amazing coincidence that the owner of the site for the care centre “happens” to be a supporter of the minister …

Integrity = R?is?n Shorthall, nuff said.

The wider social-political issue needs addressing. health is a tough assignment, twinned with social welfare it tops the spending ladder. The Government’s trial ballooning, reversals denials and weekly suggestions as to whom the Budget will harm next and who most..
IT is not too late, to get out a clean sheet of paper, write a new lyric and compose the music so the whole Cabinet sings from it. Tackle Croke Park, all salaries and pensions, re-hiring of retirees who double dip now. Look at all obvious inequities, including the fact that Government and Civil salaries and pensions are highest in Europe. Production has to be down with the second shortest work week in Europe. Look at all ministerial expenses and every output of cash- including teleconferences for saving expenses to attend meeting at home and see if that can work for Europe. Apply a fair, across the board principle to all for the COMMON GOOD. It is a scandal to punish low income families and the vulnerable elderly and ration health care and wait for along time for surgery or to see a consultant for medical emergencies while Ministers and that class and Consultants balk at very high salaries to pay down the debts this Government while in opposition ignored the cliff-hanging Bank and Property gamblers about which some economists warned the nation.

It’s our own fault at the end of the day!! We voted these untrained,unsupervised,ignorant so called politicians into office.If they can’t do the job we should find someone who can. Resign now sir !!!

Every last one of them skid marks should be booted out. And with their bumper pensions yet to come , its them who will always be laughing at us.

Very unhealthy.

Resign, he should be sacked!

how the hell did he get nearly half votes to stay must be the people In his constituency voting. we Irish are gone to soft we should kick in the doors of the dail and kick him out ourselves and a few more with him. I suppose he will be on time magazine next

If we can stop and look at the facts…. The ministers are only there to rubber stamp the work of the civil servants. So you can change the clowns, but the circus remains the same. What is needed is new vision. I don’t know where it will come from, but we need to find it quickly.

Bertie and Co look like choir boys by comparison. As you may remember going back as far as 1979, FF always talked about what was needed with out ever committing to it. Enda “everything to the west” Kenny has repeatedly lied to the people, under the umbrella we didn’t realise how bad it really was.

The whole country knew, and unless he was asleep in the chamber (not beyond the bounds of possibility) he would have had even more information than the man on the street.

There is a lot to be said for the US system where you elect 1 person to bring the best people on board, irrelevant of political stance, and if they fail in their role then they will be sacked.

Maybe it is time for President Higgins to write a ditty on the new Ireland that Enda saved according to Time Magazine.

Thoughts anyone????

How many journal.ie logins do you have Reilly, you arrogant arsehole

send him back to st claberts,that hairy hand condition is contagious

Yeah yeah. Reilly should resign. Then they’d replace him with a Fine Gaeler that cared about the people of Ireland. Oh wait…

Jeeezzz don’t get it the majority says “NO” what’s wrong with the Irish people???????????

i think the whole lot of them should go… Irelands answer to unemployment is to emigrate…
Whooopeee..

I don’t actually think it’s a case of should he go or not. Enda Kenny should be managing his team properly and this is clearly not being done on most fronts. Reilly needs to change things rapidly in the Health Services and not be wasting time on defending his actions everyday. We are not paying him for that as far as I know! So Mr. Reilly get up of your arrogant arse and implement the necessary changes now!

Should get the revenue boys to run the health system. They seem to be the only ones doing a proper job regardless of consequence

I have absolutely no faith in either the health minister or the HSE. No accountability when things go belly up just more “passing the buck” attitude. Sickening carry on excuse the pun.

Should probably reset the poll with new wording.

Regardless of whether it was Reilly who chose the site and signed the page, it happened on his watch. The way the government has ostracised Shortall and closed ranks around Reilly smacks of prioritising the stability of the coalition at the cost of both integrity and, more importantly, the public perception of integrity. After the debacle that was the last government, the most important asset in this political climate is to be seen as honest. Every day that Reilly stays in power further undermines the stability of the government.
At this point, it doesn’t matter overmuch whether or not he’s guilty – if he had any loyalty to his party, country aside, James Reilly would swallow his pride, resign in the morning, take the severance pay and step aside before the damage becomes irreparable.
http://www.perspectivesbyjack.com/

Resign he should Run but he wont get far if his looks are anything to go by his own health needs looking after.

He is totally unfit for public office. The man is Arrogant and a bully. He is a bankrupt and should not be there.

he definately should resign!! after all his ‘genious’ reforms that will only screw up the system even more, and the rest of GF trying to excuse him and explain his reforms it just utter nonsense. He can’t even explain and face it himself. It seems like his reforms will bring this system nowhere. so it’s to say about the rest of the FG party and how they currently rule the country. Sure the best way it’s just to cut it all and double or triple the taxes and sure it’ll be grand then? Do they even use their brains. Some more Ministers should thinknof resignation , nevermind the party….

Sadly yes – whether it is true or not he has has given the impression of being just another party apparatchik redolent of FF
Deeply disappointed in this govt as there is absolutely no sign structural political change after all they are simply members of the political club which protects themselves and their futures

A Poll run a few days ago. Same question about #reilly but only abut only a Yes and No answer. http://twtpoll.com/q0d87z

Hmm 50 50 split pretty much. Obviously there’s usually a lot of flaming on here but I’m genuinely interested as to why people think he should stay? Or is it just party lackeys distorting the results. Maybe people are so used to voting no that they didn’t read the question properly?

In the image above. Health Minister looks like he’s been binging on Jd.

if he goes, do the rest plan to reverse the cuts to the home help service and take that sort of money away from the supporting the private schools? my take on the private schools being they are as about morally corrupt as can be, and give no values to the youngsters, only greed to be on the top of the pyramid, i say, cherish the least able and let there be a middle ground to education where the achievers will be by credit rather than who mummy and daddy are.

Poor oul Dicey Reilly Reilly will have to give it up !?

Can’t wait to punish this government in the next general election :( I have one vote but I’m going to make it count :)

Oh for gods sake polls motions of no confidence deliberately downing short hall for gods sake prosecute him what he is doing is bordering on criminal so forget polls and anything else the boys club are behind him and he is untouchable maybe people should take to the streets and demand he goes after all he is employed by them

@Emer.
Any chance of resetting the poll to a simple “yes”he should go or “no” he should not go and the usual fence squatters before reilly sees the poll and gets a dose of aherncowenitus and actually think the majority of the electorate want him.

You know what would be nice? A Minister for Health who wasn’t grossly overweight. Perhaps even someone who looked healthy so that when he or she gave us the sermon on how to live long and healthy lives they might be believable.

I agree Reilly should resign but so should Kenny, Gilmore, and all the other ministers in government.

WHERE IS MY COMMENT GONE?!

Reilly should be sacked and ALL his decisions reversed… after all there is no confidence in him or his actions We just do not Trust LIARS

Dr. Reilly or Mary Harney?

Down with that sort of thing.

You do realise that the results are going to include a massive number of mistakes given that the article has people inclined to say no when they mean yes and vice-versa… resulting in both alpha & beta mistakes (reserach methodological terminology) and I can only hope they cancel eachother out, thought it is doubtful based on the clear preference for one answer.
A month ago you asked if he should stay, now you’re asking if he should remain and two opposing positions articulated within two lines of eachother! Completely unreliable methodology!!! Shame on you Journal.ie!

yes, his looks says a lot i have to say, everytime i see him he reminds me of the worst ad ever for ‘what best to eat’

If he resigns he’ll keep his TD salary, probably at least one pension (TD plus ministerial), and be remembered as “the minister who resigned” – great moral ammunition for his next election campaign. Plus, Kenny will look like a political leader who’s able to make tough decisions. So it’ll be a win-win all-round, politically. But this coalition doesn’t seem to care about making smart political decisions…

Rather, “it would be a win-win all-round”.

Why just get rid of one TD when we have a simple way to reduce the number of TD’s to about 90, (or even less if we want), by amending Article 16.2.2 of the Constitution to a allow for 1 TD per 50,000 people, (or more if we like), instead of the current situation which requires a minimum of 1 TD per 30,000 people and a maximum of 1 TD per 20,000 people.

Simple question- are there any areas in Dublin or regions in the State being left without a Primary Health Care Centre?

Does the media now decide who runs our country- the results of the poll should be interesting

He could make far more money working for himself. I think he s there for the greater good. But im not 100% sure.

The irony of people jumping up and down about ‘parish pump’ politics…especially the media…This country and its people are the very defination of such politics. We don’t care if its the right thing to do, once it gets done in our location and the rest of ye can bugger off… Recent high profile examples are the A&E in Roscommon and the Army barracks in Mullingar…Both completely non-viable but people in those locations don’t care about the greater good of ireland…All they care about is themselves… Irish people need to grow up!!!!

i think reducing consultants pay not a bad one in fact!

“the tumult of the crowd is always close to madness.” Alcuin, 8th Century Scholar and head of the Palatine school established by Charlemagne at Aachen.