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TAOISEACH ENDA KENNY is joining hundreds of employers participating in Job Shadow Day, allowing a person with disabilities to join him for his day’s work.
The event is part of the National Supported Employment Week, run by the Irish Association of Supported Employment.
In the Dáil this morning the Taoiseach’s shadow, Cian O’Connor, was greeted with a warm round of applause from all sides of the house.
“Today is natioal Job Shadow Day in respect of people in supported employment,” the Taoiseach said, before pointing to the public gallery where O’Connor was sitting.
“I’d like the house to recognise Cian O’Connor up there, who is shadowing the Taoiseach today in my work over in the Department of the Taoiseach.
“I just happen to be just one of hundreds of people all over the country who are being shadowed by people in supported employment today, and I think that’s a very good thing to do.”
Ceann Comhairle Seán Barrett commented that he hoped O’Connor did not “pick up any bad habits” from observing the activity in the Dáil.
The programme is designed to give people with disabilities a chance to get an up-close experience of the working world, and to appraise the skills and qualities needed for full employment.
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I can’t help feeling that if bo jo had not have contacted this virus he would have had no empathy for those that had
@FlopFlipU: Not to get too “tin-foil hat,” but allegedly being very ill seems to have raised his stock with England .
@Bríd Uí Mhaoluala: a bit of a rally around the flag boost most likely not to last too long. But then again he’s the chosen one of the rally around the flag set.
@Bríd Uí Mhaoluala: You killed your comment with the ‘Not to get too “tin foil hat”.
@FlopFlipU: that’s why you’ll never amount to anything, buddy!
@Charles Alexander: what a bully
@Fabio Dillon: so, the comments to which I responded were perfectly acceptable?
Grow up, it’s a tough world out there!
@Bríd Uí Mhaoluala: there is a misconception with the tin foil hat which is if you don’t agree with Leo’s 5m spin machine on anything you’ll be labelled as racist tin-foil hat wearing ill educated, junkie welfare scrounger.. Tin foil hats are worn alright but it’s the behaviour from Leo’s team wearing these hats to block the last 20 years of madness and try their best to squeeze a retort in defence
@Bríd Uí Mhaoluala: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
@Charles Alexander: your a discrace
@FlopFlipU: wheres his herd immunity thinking now ?
@Agenda21: I’d like to point out that nobody was talking about Ireland or Leo before you decided it was all about Leo. Rent free.
@Agenda21: here’s my issue: my last comment was 3:01. You made a comment a few minutes later and then you come back an hour later and made a comment in response to me. Did it take you an hour to think about it?
Also, a 3 word comment and you only spelt one word correctly – the letter ‘a’.
You, my dear person, are an embarrassment who should be seen and not heard.
Numbers down worldwide today, that’s a good sign. Anther 2 weeks in lockdown and Irelands new cases could be reduced to 100-200 per day. Things may go up again as people return to work. But theres a chance that by September. New cases may be reduced to just a few a day, and by adhering to social distancing, we may be back to somewhat normal life sooner than we think.
@Damien: fingers and toes crossed..;-)
@Damien: Now Now Damien there is no place for positive glass half full comments around here, doomsdayers will be along shortly to rip you a new ars##ole
@Damien: The UK response has been a shambles, but alas Boris will be mace out tp be some sort of national hero who recovered and went back to the front. Total joke of a cabinet. Labour will surely make hay when a tribunal of enquiry is held on the governments handling of the crisis.
@John Caplis: yep. The fact they’re “looking at” quarantining people who enter the country rather than just doing it is a little disconcerting.
One has to believe also had FFG not let the HSE deteriorate to the point of privatisation purposely , lives would have been saves with much higher tests….
@Gary O CONNOR: how did fg deteriorate the hse. Thee majority of their time in government the country was broken & running huge deficits. I’d look to our friends in FF that threw away a chance to create a top class health service during the Celtic tiger era.
@Donal Hogan: Come on… They were in power for 10yrs. Cervical check, the trolley crisis, the unfilled vacancies, the shambles in mental health services, the treatment of student and newly qualified nurses. All in the past 2 years. How Harris is still in that job is beyond me, and talking a good talk can’t absolve him for the part he played in the human tragedy that’s currently going on in our nursing homes. I get that Health has been a major issue for every government going back decades, but surely people can’t be so blinded by whatever sort of Stockholm Syndrome they’re suffering that all memory of the deteriorating mess that was our health service has been wiped away ?
@Gary O CONNOR: but most of privatisation and likes of creation of VHI was under the watch of FF. But sure don’t let facts get in the way of a good rant
@Gary O CONNOR: is there any scenario where u would be happy with the government. I doubt it!
@Tommy Roche: The health system here was fu(ked for far longer than just 10 years
@Tommy Roche: Tommy you must have amnesia, the health system has been below par for 35+ years, there was a global recession 10 years ago, and we are still 210billion in debt. So I don’t know how you expected things to magically be better,
@Dave O’Keeffe: Yea, precisely why I said it has been an issue going back decades. It’s been getting worse for the past 4 or 5 years though and was one of two main reasons why FG took a thumping in the last election. The other being housing.
@Chris Linehan: if only there wasn’t some cataclysmic financial disaster, that resulted in less money available for pretty much everything. Yes 10 years is a lot, but the 10 before that had far more opportunity.
@Alan Biddulph: Where did I say I wanted magic ? A bit of competence from the minister in charge would have done. Nothing got better as we came out of the recession of 10yrs ago, it got worse. 600,000+ on waiting lists ?
@Gary O CONNOR: is it possible that a lot of people were on trolleys needlessly. Obviously there are many genuine cases but some people go to hospital for minor ailments that really don’t need hospital treatment.
@Shane Brigdale: couldn’t agree more. Fear of hospitals does not completely explain what we are currently seeing
@Gary O CONNOR: that’s the level of failed greed even in a pandemic that these people will go to weather fiscal or power unfortunately
@Sandra McBride: or it could be because people are scared out of their wit’s considering 25% of tested + carriers are health care workers.. Also why if certain numbers of people are known to have had a minor stroke or heart attack in a 2 month period not presenting anymore
@Dave O’Keeffe: Was my comment removed because i called everyone ‘sh!te’? But you’re right, the crash put any following government on the back foot but can you tell me anything which they have actually improved instead of making worse? The general inprovement of the world economy brought stability and more jobs, whereas FG sold the National Lottery for a pittance, are building a solid gold hospital apparently where we only have hopes of the final costs as opposed to known costs, healthcare/housing/homeless all worse off, all the little stuff like the printer debacle, the broadband debacle, the general governing debacle. These lads are one Wikipedia paragraph on “How to govern” ahead of the rest of us.
@Barry: yep but it has gotten way worse under Fine Gael. I hate the “they had no money” excuse too. Shouldn’t they be looking at improving efficiencies in public sector bodies.
@artur filip: Rashid Buttar is a discredited quack that has been reprimanded twice by the North Carolina medical board for unethical practices and reprimanded by the FDA. He is also an anti vaccination activist.
@Val Doyle: Follow Ivor Cummins.(Irish) Master Bio chemist. Has all the peer reviewed studies and data to a tee.
Financial Times a few days ago estimated 48,000 deaths in the UK.
@Brianán McBride:
Who do you believe? An internationally respected, independent, non-aligned, award-winning body of journalists that produce a newspaper with an emphasis on business and economic news, or a govt. of incompetent, criminally negligent, truth-twisting, slimey bumlickers selected for their loyalty to a immoral, alcoholic, philandering, misogynistic, psychopath ex-journalist and his xenophobic self-destructive Brexit policy.
I’ll give you a couple of minutes to work it out.
@Eric Dunn: nailed it in 1 Eric
China lied!
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