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Timmy Dooley On Vincent Brown
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28-03-2012 2:57pm#1
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When did he vote against Ennis hospital?
Right here is why he keeps getting elected.
In 2003 the Hanley Report downgraded Ennis General Hospital to the level of a Local Hospital, with a Nurse Led Minor Injury Unit (8am to 8pm) to replace Accident & Emergency Services. The he High Dependency Unit (formerly Intensive Care Unit) and Psychiatric Unit were both transfered to Limerick Regional. The Mammography Unit was closed and the equipment was sent to a PRIVATE hospital in Limerick, which is a travesty all on it's own (I'll come back to that).
Services at the Ennis Hospital are now less than 10% of what had been there in 2002. This was done under the previous FF government and Dooley did NOTHING to stop this. In fact, he supported the report and refused to raise a finger to stop this from happening, which is why they have now made him FF Vice President, since he is obviously willing to screw his own constituents when it comes to choosing between the party and the health needs of people in his own county.
Back to the mammogram unit - does everyone here know the full story on this? Why it is such a travesty? There was no such unit in the Ennis hospital for many years. Then back in the 90's a local lady got breast cancer. The thing was, she was on the waiting list to be seen in Limerick and if they had been able to see her a few months earlier they would have been able to help her, but because there were no resources in Clare, it became terminal. Before she died she helped raise awareness and ran a campaign to raise the money to put a mammogram unit in Ennis hospital so this would not happen to any other Clare women. The money that paid for the unit and the equipment was raised from the general public of Clare via donations.
FF then came in and said they were moving the unit to a PRIVATE HOSPITAL (only accepting patients with private insurance) in Limerick. We protested this if you can recall just a few years ago when they were slated to do this. FF were cute about it, they said fine, we won't move the unit, then said they would however FIRE ALL STAFF that work there and close the unit, which they did. Then, a few weeks later in the dead of night they sent moving trucks in and ripped out all the equipment and took it to the private hospital in Limerick anyway. It was paid for by the people, yet FF had no problem 'donating' our publicly funded equipment to a private medical group who now has it, in Limerick, leaving the women of Clare vulnerable once again.
Timmy sat by and did nothing, supported the report, never raised a finger, and obviously knew it was going to happen the way it did as they wouldn't have sent moving trucks in without alerting him to the issue.0 -
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roosterbooster wrote: »what did we expect from timmy going on past performances?
Saturday December 10 2011
A TD last night said he mistakenly voted in place of an absent colleague.
Fianna Fail's Timmy Dooley said he mistakenly voted for party colleague, Limerick TD Niall Collins, on the Social Welfare Bill.
Mr Dooley said he initially sat in Mr Collins's seat by mistake and voted. He then moved to his own seat and voted again.
The Clare TD insisted he noticed the mistake himself, and notified Chief Whip Paul Kehoe and the clerk of the Dail, and the record was corrected. Fine Gael's James Bannon said he noticed the mistake, too.
and then a few months earlier....
Deputy Dooley and his Fianna Fail party colleague Frank Fahey claim they pushed the wrong button in the electronic vote on holding an immediate by-election in Donegal South West.
The vote was drawn 76-76 before the casting vote of the Ceann Comhairle Seamus Kirk prevented further embarrassment and a defeat for the Government.
Minister Mary Hanafin has described the errors by Deputies Dooley and Fahey as “not good enough” and “never acceptable”. Meanwhile, Government Chief Whip John Curran said he would meet with both T.D.’s later today. He added : “My understanding is this was a genuine mistake but either way it’s not good enough”.
Deputy Dooley last night told The Irish Times newspaper that he and Mr Fahey had made a mistake. He commented: “I pressed the wrong button in error. I assume it’ll be taken as error. The two of us were located side by side. We were talking. We’d arrived late and we pressed the wrong button.”
That's why even your friends refer to you as Timmy Fooley
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