So, Denis O'Brien now owns a hospital.

Banjo String

What will Denis acquire next I wonder?

Businessman Denis O' Brien is taking over the 214-bed Beacon Private Hospital in Sandyford in Dublin from next Monday.


The move comes as US-based hospital operator UPMC Ireland said it is selling the clinic and relinquishing all management responsibilities at the private hospital in south Dublin.

Ulster Bank has sold loans linked to the Beacon to Mr O’Brien, UPMC said. Mr O’Brien will now use the deal to take control of the hospital.

“The new debt owner will not restructure the debt and clearly indicated his intent to own, control and manage Beacon Hospital,” UPMC said. “Without a restructuring, UPMC Ireland must agree to the demands and sent notice to representatives of the debt owner that it will agree to sell its ownership for a nominal value and relinquish management responsibilities for the hospital in addition to ceasing all affiliation whatsoever with the facility.”

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/businessman-denis-obrien-takes-control-of-beacon-hospital-30163314.html

It makes me wonder about private health in this country tbh. First Mount Carmel, then the Beacon, surely a sign people can't really afford the fees?

I think we should just hand the country over to him and be done with it tbh.

Sky King

Banjo String wrote: »

What will Denis acquire next I wonder? .

The water works and the electric company I'll wager.

Frosty McSnowballs

He bought a whole hospital?

I can only afford Lidl plasters and "paracetamol" that taste like chewing gum. I need to use some elbow grease, knuckle down, sort my life out and rob rich people!

BillyMitchel

It's a private hospital, someone has to own it and I can't afford it.

Stavros Murphy

BillyMitchel wrote: »

It's a private hospital, someone has to own it and I can't afford it.

Denis can. Oh, feck me, he certainly can.

Banjo String

I know a member of the staff very well, they're worried what changes will be made to the place. Job security etc.

shopaholic01

Banjo String wrote: »

I know a member of the staff very well, they're worried what changes will be made to the place.

Unfortunately for the staff, change is obviously needed.

D1stant

Trapattoni will be made chief surgeon, but he will only be funded to complete 50% of any given operation

Kristopherus

Well, the first thing he'll do is try to get the debt written down:rolleyes:

stimpson

It's just a big game of monopoly. I bet he goes for Heuston station next.

Rabbo

Banjo String wrote: »

I know a member of the staff very well, they're worried what changes will be made to the place. Job security etc.

Their jobs are alot more secure today than they were yesterday.

sillyoulfool

Kristopherus wrote: »

Well, the first thing he'll do is try to get the debt written down:rolleyes:

He owns the debt, he would be the one who has to write it down.

mickdw

I dont know how the upcoming health care for all is being set up but I have a feeling the state will move alot of the action into private sector hands. Probably loads of low grade private hospitals pulling in money all sides from the taxpayer. O Brien probably positioning himself to get into that business.

super_furry

Hate da playa, not the game.

Am I doing it right?

michael999999

mickdw wrote: »

I dont know how the upcoming health care for all is being set up but I have a feeling the state will move alot of the action into private sector hands. Probably loads of low grade private hospitals pulling in money all sides from the taxpayer. O Brien probably positioning himself to get into that business.

Surely your not implying that Denis might be in for a wind fall from he's friends in Government!

That kind of thing doesn't happen in Irish politics!

Stavros Murphy

mickdw wrote: »

I dont know how the upcoming health care for all is being set up but I have a feeling the state will move alot of the action into private sector hands. Probably loads of low grade private hospitals pulling in money all sides from the taxpayer. O Brien probably positioning himself to get into that every business.

fyp.

lufties

Banjo String wrote: »

What will Denis acquire next I wonder?



http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/businessman-denis-obrien-takes-control-of-beacon-hospital-30163314.html

It makes me wonder about private health in this country tbh. First Mount Carmel, then the Beacon, surely a sign people can't really afford the fees?

I think we should just hand the country over to him and be done with it tbh.

He's hardly in the illuminati, would he be? I'm actually serious.

BillyMitchel

super_furry wrote: »

Hate da playa, not the game.

Am I doing it right?

No one hates monopoly man, pull yourself together!

whiskeyman

I for one welcome our new rotund overlord.

RobbingBandit

Always wondered that about Irishmen, can they be in a global consortium that has a controlling interest in everything we the people do but is not the catholic church, I think not.

D1stant

lufties wrote: »

He's hardly in the illuminati, would he be? I'm actually serious.

Nah. He failed the medical

lufties

D1stant wrote: »

Nah. He failed the medical

meaning he's a man of sound mind so in that case :cool:

mikom

Drink my clean water.................. profit
Drink my cryptosporidium water.................. profit

super_furry

Maybe he watched Prometheus at the weekend and got some ideas.

Smidge

Sounds like ole Denis is getting his ducks in a row for the forthcoming privatisation of the healthcare system.
Clever, clever boy.

Stavros Murphy

mikom wrote: »

Drink my clean water.................. profit
Drink my cryptosporidium water.................. profit

Ring for help on my network, read my paper, watch my TV, drive on my road, using my fuel.... Everybody needs friends, friends in high places..la la la...

Banjo String

Rabbo wrote: »

Their jobs are alot more secure today than they were yesterday.

Some people's are. Apparently the place is overridden with management though. Too many chiefs etc.

I've told them this too, and explained OBrien didn't buy the place to let it fail.

I think they're more worried about pay and conditions being changes, contracts rewritten etc.

lufties

mikom wrote: »

Drink my clean water.................. profit
Drink my cryptosporidium water.................. profit

is that another name for flouride?

mikom

lufties wrote: »

is that another name for flouride?

Yes........... in Galway city.

Stavros Murphy

lufties wrote: »

is that another name for flouride?

No, tis bugs. Drink bugs, get trots, get trots, go to hospital..twas a bleak analogy. And utterly unrelated to Denis, who is not a bugs peddler.

SEPT 23 1989

Now we will see how a hospital should be run

mikom

Slightly off topic, but I'd love to see a cage fight between Denis O'Brien and Micheal O'Leary

awec

I was in the clinic bit of it recently, I got the impression that a lot of the units were empty? Or am I remembering wrong?

Dempsey

Bit of an overreaction to the proposed universal health insurance. :pac:

Stavros Murphy

Dempsey wrote: »

Bit of an overreaction to the proposed universal health insurance. :pac:

Yeah, except you just kinda trod in the nub of it...

Kristopherus

sillyoulfool wrote: »

He owns the debt, he would be the one who has to write it down.

Ah, I read it wrong:(. In that case I expect he'll hike up all prices possible and cut wages where he can as well.

Kristopherus

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Now we will see how a hospital should be run

Meaning what?????

sillyoulfool

Kristopherus wrote: »

Ah, I read it wrong:(. In that case I expect he'll hike up all prices possible and cut wages where he can as well.

He will make it profitable, that is all that matters.

Dyr

Kristopherus wrote: »

Meaning what?????

presumably that a minister will receive a large sum of money

Nodin

Banjo String wrote: »

What will Denis acquire next I wonder?



http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/businessman-denis-obrien-takes-control-of-beacon-hospital-30163314.html

It makes me wonder about private health in this country tbh. First Mount Carmel, then the Beacon, surely a sign people can't really afford the fees?

I think we should just hand the country over to him and be done with it tbh.

Its for journalists recuperating after receiving a writ or having been through the high court.

Nodin

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Now we will see how a hospital should be run

...you have to bribe the staff to get treated?

woodoo

Smidge wrote: »

Sounds like ole Denis is getting his ducks in a row for the forthcoming privatisation of the healthcare system.
Clever, clever boy.

I'm sure his friend big phil hogan sat down with him and told him now is the time to move on private health as an investment.

goose2005

D1stant wrote: »

Trapattoni will be made chief surgeon, but he will only be funded to complete 50% of any given operation

Eh, it is, how you say, difficult the cancer, also for liver, the results, the skin, she is not so good.

Adamantium

Ben Dunne Gyms and Denis O Brien Hospital

"If you don't get them , I will"

josip

Michael Lowry will probably be awared the refrigeration contract the next time it's up for renewal.
Even if his tender is openly acknowledged not to be the most competitive.