Last week the big announcement was 100 cater jobs.
This in itself keeps people requiring care out of care homes.
Last month the advertising campaign was aimed at people with memory problems to write reminder notes for themselves.
Hit the sick, poor, elderly and vulnerable people why don’t you?
Reilly, you are a disgraceful, incompetent, miserable excuse for an air heating apparatus, incapable of running your own personal affairs. Shame on you.

Welcome to the world of the troika!!!!
I cringe to think what this island will look like when the dust settles. What’s the point of getting your deficit in order at such a fast rate if the collateral damage is destroying the very existence of the nation. It makes no sense !!!! It is economically impossible to cut ones way out of a recession! Could this latest cut be a subtle way of inducing pressure on the public sector by the private in order to soften things up for changes to the croke park agreement ???

I’d like to address thejournal.ie chair, do you know the whereabouts of Minister James Reilly?.

it’s not just the health minister that has gone underground, the whole of the government (with the exception of Leo Varaddker) has been missing for the last month. o.k so everyone should be entitled to a holiday, but with the state the country is in and the up coming budget to be sorted out, would they not have been better taking a shorter holiday and getting back to the job which they are grossly overpaid to do? i really do fear for this country in the next year or so ,its time these lilly livered sharekers grew some balls and told the troika we can take no more of there enforced austerity. i think this budget will be the straw that breaks the camels back for many people and we will see a summer of civil unrest. time for those in charge to wake up and stop the rot.

It is a well known fact that the only thing that makes a human being change a pattern of negative behaviour is pain. When the Irish population has suffered enough pain and critical mass has been reached behaviour will change. I do agree that citizens will have to start voicing their disagreement with what’s happening to their society. I have faith that when the time is right they will. Austerity has not and will not work. There is one key part of the equation which is keeping things relatively benign up to now. The public sector unions have been kept quite. It’s no coincidence that a root and branch restructuring of the entire public service has not taken place. It’s the elephant in the room and we all know it. If it was challenged there would be boots on the ground and from there all hell could break loose. Those in power are playing a very cunning game that eventually will backfire and bring about their demise. HOPEFULLY!!!!

Carer jobs.

time to tell the troika to go take a runnung jump ,they will get there money back but not at the cost of the disabled and old ,ORielly knows this is a step too far which is why he cant be found to answer questions ,why dont they just give us all a pill to take when we get old or sick thats all there short of doing ,and to the Labour Party you have stayed quite TOO long time to stand up and be counted .SHAME ,SHAME ,SHAME ,on the lot of you ,its time to draw a line in the sand we’ve taken as much as we,re going too .

About Obama’s response of “This seat’s taken.” Not for long, please God! Maybe Romney will visit less late night chat shows, play less golf and take responsiblity unlike the current holder of the chair!