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Tonight With Vincent Browne Thread v2.0

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  • #7772
    imme
    Registered Users Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭imme


    Ming, what a joke.


  • #7773
    grey_so_what
    Registered Users Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    MrsD007 wrote: »
    Susan O'Keefe, former journalist and Labour Senator. She was a fantastic journalist in her day!



    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_O'Keeffe

    There was "shock horror" at the fact SO'K approached Larry Goodman after mass on a Sunday morning and asked him some awkward questions - She got a lot of stick for that one!!

    It was considered to have been a gross invasion of his privacy if I remember correctly!......


  • #7774
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    The Home Help/Carer cuts are really disgusting, these people save this country a fortune and deserve more respect :mad:


  • #7775
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    grey_so_what wrote: »
    There was "shock horror" at the fact SO'K approached Larry Goodman after mass on a Sunday morning and asked him some awkward questions - She got a lot of stick for that one!!

    It was considered to have been a gross invasion of his privacy if I remember correctly!......

    I remember seeing that on TV at the time. It was great to watch.


  • #7776
    grey_so_what
    Registered Users Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    I am really appalled at the way people have to be dragged onto the street to appeal for help....

    When I see this poor lady trying to get a basic right it makes my boil.......They should hang their heads in shame.


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  • #7777
    grey_so_what
    Registered Users Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    Harry Angstrom wrote: »
    I remember seeing that on TV at the time. It was great to watch.

    No-one could touch "The Baron" at that stage HA!...


  • #7778
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 81,111 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    MrsD007 wrote: »
    The Home Help/Carer cuts are really disgusting, these people save this country a fortune and deserve more respect :mad:

    Exactly, but because it's outside the Croker deal it's fair game to them. The amount of general waste in the HSE is shocking.


  • #7779
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    MrsD007 wrote: »
    The Home Help/Carer cuts are really disgusting, these people save this country a fortune and deserve more respect :mad:

    The clowns in Government don't seem to realise this, while at the same time they grant increments to senior civil servants earning more than 100 grand. Tossers :mad:


  • #7780
    greecy_joe
    Site Banned Posts: 69 ✭✭greecy_joe


    MrsD007 wrote: »
    The Home Help/Carer cuts are really disgusting, these people save this country a fortune and deserve more respect :mad:

    who does home help mainly serve ?


  • #7781
    grey_so_what
    Registered Users Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Exactly, but because it's outside the Croker deal it's fair game to them. The amount of general waste in the HSE is shocking.

    I wonder how much they spend on their Legal Advice????????:mad:


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  • #7782
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    I wonder if Reilly will have shares in those private home help companies, just as he has shares in a private nursing home?


  • #7783
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    My 85 year old Granny had a stroke a few years, she also has other complicated health issues. She lives a very happy and independent life thanks to family support and the tremendous work done by her Home Help. I've seen first hand the work that these people do.

    We seem to be going backwards in this country, people should be allowed to remain in their homes for as long as possible. A bed in a Nursing Home these days costs the State about €900 per week so it far cheaper to pay for the supports that allow people to remain at home.


  • #7784
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    greecy_joe wrote: »
    who does home help mainly serve ?
    The elderly (with serious health issues) and those with disabilities.


  • #7785
    grey_so_what
    Registered Users Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    Harry Angstrom wrote: »
    I wonder if Reilly will have shares in those private home help companies, just as he has shares in a private nursing home?

    I am disappointed in the Minister....I thought he had a better agenda, he was a GP, an interest in Special Need's but it seems to me he just is feathering his own nest all the time.........I thought he was good for the office but I don't think so now............at all.


  • #7786
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    He's obviously a liar if he said Boyd Barrett was there, if Boyd Barrett can conclusively prove that he wasn't there.


  • #7787
    corcaigh1
    Registered Users Posts: 647 ✭✭✭corcaigh1


    F**K me listen to that labour clown trying to babble on!! Vinny making bits of him!!


  • #7788
    tayto lover
    Registered Users Posts: 51,454 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    MrsD007 wrote: »
    My 85 year old Granny had a stroke a few years, she also has other complicated health issues. She lives a very happy and independent life thanks to family support and the tremendous work done by her Home Help. I've seen first hand the work that these people do.

    We seem to be going backwards in this country, people should be allowed to remain in their homes for as long as possible. A bed in a Nursing Home these days costs the State about €900 per week so it far cheaper to pay for the supports that allow people to remain at home.

    All the are saving by these cuts is a mere 8 million. That's a disgrace.


  • #7789
    imme
    Registered Users Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭imme


    Boyd Barrett always goes on as if he's addressing a meeting and disrespects other guests.

    He always gets into an argument with Vincent as if they're tussling. :D

    For whatever reason Vincent credits him with great intelligence and doesn't go hard on him.

    Good night Vincent. :rolleyes:


  • #7790
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    tayto lover wrote: »
    All the are saving by these cuts is a mere 8 million. That's a disgrace.

    And it will probably cost them a lot more in the long run.


  • #7791
    constitutionus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    I sense a mauling from Vinny in the offing :D


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  • #7792
    tayto lover
    Registered Users Posts: 51,454 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    imme wrote: »
    Boyd Barrett always goes on as if he's addressing a meeting and disrespects other guests.

    He always gets into an argument with Vincent as if they're tussling. :D

    For whatever reason Vincent credits him with great intelligence and doesn't go hard on him.

    Good night Vincent. :rolleyes:

    If I was on that panel and RBB waved his hands in front of my face like he did with that Lab guy he'd be handed his head in a jiffy.


  • #7793
    greecy_joe
    Site Banned Posts: 69 ✭✭greecy_joe


    MrsD007 wrote: »
    My 85 year old Granny had a stroke a few years, she also has other complicated health issues. She lives a very happy and independent life thanks to family support and the tremendous work done by her Home Help. I've seen first hand the work that these people do.

    We seem to be going backwards in this country, people should be allowed to remain in their homes for as long as possible. A bed in a Nursing Home these days costs the State about €900 per week so it far cheaper to pay for the supports that allow people to remain at home.


    home help should not be cut but the state pension is extremley generous in this country , rather than cut the pension , 75 euro should be deducted each week in order to cover the cost of employing home help , the goverment can subsidise the rest


  • #7794
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 81,111 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Stress tests, lol


  • #7795
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    imme wrote: »
    Boyd Barrett always goes on as if he's addressing a meeting and disrespects other guests.

    He always gets into an argument with Vincent as if they're tussling. :D

    For whatever reason Vincent credits him with great intelligence and doesn't go hard on him.

    Good night Vincent. :rolleyes:

    It seems to me that Vinnie is always fairly hard on ULA representatives. Granted some of their ideas are a bit off the wall but so far tonight, Richard Boyd Barrett has been speaking sense.


  • #7796
    grey_so_what
    Registered Users Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    There are many unpaid carers out there.....

    I was one for three years...never cost the State a penny.

    It is effectively putting people's back to the wall by targeting people who don't have loved ones to care for them. Politicians will grasp whatever they can to balance the books....Disgust's me really......

    It's like holding a gun to someone's head..........


  • #7797
    greecy_joe
    Site Banned Posts: 69 ✭✭greecy_joe


    grey_so_what wrote: »
    There are many unpaid carers out there.....

    I was one for three years...never cost the State a penny.

    It is effectively putting people's back to the wall by targeting people who don't have loved ones to care for them. Politicians will grasp whatever they can to balance the books....Disgust's me really......

    It's like holding a gun to someone's head..........


    cutting home help is a sneaky way of not cutting the pension , my point is they should deduct 75 quid each week from those pensioners who need home help , goverment are afraid this would cost them votes so they chose the underhanded method , pensioners will end up having to pay someone to help them now privatley


  • #7798
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 81,111 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    I can't for the life of me understand why a new bank isn't formed and comes in with fairer terms for borrowers and savers, is there massive controls put in place in this country to prevent setting up a bank? I watched Bank Of Dave which was on Channel 4 recently, real interesting the loops they had to jump through to attempt to setup a bank in the UK, seemed like pure protectionism.


  • #7799
    take everything
    Registered Users Posts: 9,800 ✭✭✭take everything


    fonejacker_terry_tibbs.jpg


  • #7800
    greecy_joe
    Site Banned Posts: 69 ✭✭greecy_joe


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    I can't for the life of me understand why a new bank isn't formed and comes in with fairer terms for borrowers and savers, is there massive controls put in place in this country to prevent setting up a bank? I watched Bank Of Dave which was on Channel 4 recently, real interesting the loops they had to jump through to attempt to setup a bank in the UK, seemed like pure protectionism.

    i understand the borrowers bit but what have you in mind for savers ?


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  • #7801
    grey_so_what
    Registered Users Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    greecy_joe wrote: »
    cutting home help is a sneaky way of not cutting the pension , my point is they should deduct 75 quid each week from those pensioners who need home help , goverment are afraid this would cost them votes so they chose the underhanded method , pensioners will end up having to pay someone to help them now privatley


    That is a lot of money g-j.......that would stress any pensioners head..........They are terrified about rises in everything.........That would put sheer terror the thought of it.....



    SNAP MRSD!


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