As a person, Simon Harris

Wtf ?

He is only a youngfella (33) I would not like his job. His phone must be in meltdown. Fair Play to him.:)

Fann Linn

Wtf ? wrote: »

He is only a youngfella (33) I would not like his job. His phone must be in meltdown. Fair Play to him.:)

Hi Simon.

mr_fegelien

He's pretty handsome but his voice sounds like a fecking cartoon so ruins it

punisher5112

Hi there, who is this Simon says....

punisher5112

Simon says

HeidiHeidi

mr_fegelien wrote: »

He's pretty handsome but his voice sounds like a fecking cartoon so ruins it

That's the sum total of all you've taken from the last few weeks? Really??

Class MayDresser

Is this thread fair? As a politician OK but as a person?

TuringBot47

mr_fegelien wrote: »

He's pretty handsome but his voice sounds like a fecking cartoon so ruins it

Funny, that's how I imagine your voice after so, so, so many of your postings in After Hours.

Captain Red Beard

He's aged about 20 years in the last 3 or 4.

is_that_so

He has Crohn's disease.

PhilOssophy

I don't know him personally, have not been a fan of the Children's hospital fiasco but he has handled Covid-19 well to be fair.

punisher5112

Simon says clap

TuringBot47

Wtf ? wrote: »

He is only a youngfella (33) I would not like his job. His phone must be in meltdown. Fair Play to him.:)

Who cares about who he is as a person, if he's doing the job ?

Wtf ?

punisher5112 wrote: »

Simon says

Old joke, You were beaten to it, Inherently I assume originally is not your forte ?

TuringBot47

is_that_so wrote: »

He has Crohn's disease.

I knew a guy with Crohns.... looked like an drug addict he was so skinny.
So there's probably something subliminal in there that people might be against him without knowing this.

freshpopcorn

I do think he tries his best but it's a brutal job he has. At least he's easier to listen to than Louise O'Reilly is she was minister for health.

10pennymixup

mr_fegelien wrote: »

He's pretty handsome but his voice sounds like a fecking cartoon so ruins it

Handsome....Is that you Anne Keller (or the ghost of)?

A very important question. I don't know, and couldn't be arsed speculating. All that matters is that he performs his job competently. The personal side of things means little, that's for the gossip hounds in VIP magazine and other non-entities.

cj maxx

How he's doing in the job will be known in the next year or 2/3/4
The government hasn't done anything spectacular yet in the face of COVID19

punisher5112

Wtf ? wrote: »

Old joke, You were beaten to it, Inherently I assume originally is not your forte ?

In out in out and shake it all about

TuringBot47

cj maxx wrote: »

The government hasn't done anything spectacular yet in the face of COVID19

:rolleyes:

They locked down the country and closed the schools early.
Compare that to Trumps response, where he is now personally responsible for more deaths of Americans than Osama Bin Laden.

I for one am glad of an ex-doctor (now reregistered) running the country in a health crisis.

Agent Coulson

Watching the man age by the day is very sad I can only imagine the stress he is under no one deserves that stress.


It will haunt the world for a generation and the lose of front line workers throughout the world will be a huge loss to us all.


The physical and mental health these amazing people are under right now makes it even more astounding what they are doing for us.

tayto lover

I don’t have a lot of time for politicians but throughout this pandemic he has come across as someone who is sincere and trying his best. Fair play to him.

RobbingBandit

We are all aging by the day rapidly stress uncertainty loss of autonomy uneasy is the head that wears the crown he is in a terrible position making such decisions it would mentally crush most people.

matchthis

Thought it was good when he said there’s a place in hell for anyone who tries to take advantage of people during the pandemic or something along those lines

punisher5112

matchthis wrote: »

Thought it was good when he said there’s a place in hell for anyone who tries to take advantage of people during the pandemic or something along those lines

True that, about time too.

The Tetrarch

Big pressure on him, and he is doing well.
Everyone is sitting at home, but he and the health service are working more than full time.
If they get this crisis under control I will not begrudge the Dail a long summer recess, and the heath service will need a break too.

Homelander

He's an intelligent and fairly sincere guy. He gets unfair criticism as being an apparently terrible Health Minister simply because of the current state of Ireland's healthcare system, which took decades upon decades to arrive at, and can't be magically transformed by a single health minister.

KevRossi

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I do think he tries his best but it's a brutal job he has. At least he's easier to listen to than Louise O'Reilly is she was minister for health.

Louise would just be blaming everybody but herself for everything.

El Gato De Negocios

I'm sure he is a decent skin in the real world but he is as inept a politician as we have ever had in this country. He picked up a poisoned chalice for sure but he should never have been put in that position.

ChikiChiki

He is a very different minister during this crisis than the one in the years leading up to it.

He is on top of his brief at the minute. Fair play.

Darc19

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I do think he tries his best but it's a brutal job he has. At least he's easier to listen to than Louise O'Reilly is she was minister for health.

All I'll say is thank feck for that. She's comes across as someone that knows absolutely nothing about Healthcare and only opens her mouth to moan

St Tropez Betty

I wasnt a fan of him before covid 19 but then again he wasnt in the limelight as much.
I think to be fair though he stumbled into this crisis as a boy and will strut out of it as a man.

banie01

10pennymixup wrote: »

Handsome....Is that you Anne Keller (or the ghost of)?

Helen?

freshpopcorn

Darc19 wrote: »

All I'll say is thank feck for that. She's comes across as someone that knows absolutely nothing about Healthcare and only opens her mouth to moan

I always think they could pull somebody better out of the bag for health than her!

Wanderer2010

When he started the job, he had a full head of black hair and a youthful, enthusiastic vibe. Now the stress of the position has him with grey hair, a permanent stoop and he looks about 50.

That was a poisoned chalice anyway, akin to letting a mouse in charge of a zoo. There was no way he could change anything about the top-heavy incompetent behemoth that is the HSE. Whoever gave him that job was laughing for months afterwards.

Ipso

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

When he started the job, he had a full head of black hair and a youthful, enthusiastic vibe. Now the stress of the position has him with grey hair, a permanent stoop and he looks about 50.

That was a poisoned chalice anyway, akin to letting a mouse in charge of a zoo. There was no way he could change anything about the top-heavy incompetent behemoth that is the HSE. Whoever gave him that job was laughing for months afterwards.

Why would anyone take it in the first place?

Wanderer2010

Ipso wrote: »

Why would anyone take it in the first place?

I wouldnt say he had a choice. Young and wanting to make an impression for his future career, he had to say yes.

Wtf ?

cj maxx wrote: »

How he's doing in the job will be known in the next year or 2/3/4
The government hasn't done anything spectacular yet in the face of COVID19

What have they not done ?

RobertKK

He caused a general election due to his incompetence and then an election result which took the focus away from the virus, made excuses to keep flights coming from European virus hotspots saying we are in the EU and couldn't stop flights, despite others doing it.
Got a rugby match with Italy cancelled but allowed in thousands of Italians to infect Dublin.
No advice on Cheltenham.
When nursing home visits were stopped by the nursing home body, the department of health which he is head of said it was not their advice.
He should have been replaced a long time ago, he played a blinder in the early days to spread the virus.
Two areas where he failed are where the virus is hitting the most, Dublin where he allowed thousands of Italians to travel to with no screening or quarantine, and in nursing homes. It has cost a lot of lives.
But a lot of people thinks he is playing a blinder.

Wtf ?

RobertKK wrote: »

He caused a general election due to his incompetence and then an election result which took the focus away from the virus, made excuses to keep flights coming from European virus hotspots saying we are in the EU and couldn't stop flights, despite others doing it.
Got a rugby match with Italy cancelled but allowed in thousands of Italians to infect Dublin.
No advice on Cheltenham.
When nursing home visits were stopped by the nursing home body, the department of health which he is head of said it was not their advice.
He should have been replaced a long time ago, he played a blinder in the early days to spread the virus.
Two areas where he failed are where the virus is hitting the most, Dublin where he allowed thousands of Italians to travel to with no screening or quarantine, and in nursing homes. It has cost a lot of lives.
But a lot of people thinks he is playing a blinder.

Another Armchair critic ! So Funny ! What would you have done differently ?

Beechwoodspark

I am bemused by him as a person.

Won’t be able to judge his performance as minister until this crisis is over.

Beechwoodspark

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

When he started the job, he had a full head of black hair and a youthful, enthusiastic vibe. Now the stress of the position has him with grey hair, a permanent stoop and he looks about 50.

That was a poisoned chalice anyway, akin to letting a mouse in charge of a zoo. There was no way he could change anything about the top-heavy incompetent behemoth that is the HSE. Whoever gave him that job was laughing for months afterwards.

He does seem to have prematurely aged in the last few years.

Jonybgud

Wtf ? wrote: »

Another Armchair critic ! So Funny ! What would you have done differently ?

Your question was answered in spades and that's your best reply?

Wtf ?

Jonybgud wrote: »

Your question was answered in spades and that's your best reply?

I want to hear what could have been done if you had been running the show ?
Enlighten us Messiah ?

Jonybgud

Wtf ? wrote: »

I want to hear what could have been done if you had been running the show ?

With a palette as large as that I could mix a blend of ministerial genius and paint myself into the history books by elevating our fair nation to a wonderland of wellbeing and generous excess with no room for want or doubt.

Your question is childish and nonsensical, before asking for our insights please grace us with some of yours.

He has a terrible dour demeanour for a politian job


But the perfect personality for the job,in that he is listening to the experts and doing what he told by experts and has overseen a complete overhaul of the health service in space of 2 months


I did like,his intention to overhaul nursing/care homes when this is over....things cant be left go back to way,they were healthcare wise across the board

cannotlogin

I don't think most of us know him personally so it's not really fair to judge him on anything other than as a politican.

The health portfolio is a poison chalice anyway- can anyone name a successful health minister? No one ever makes a success of it or delivered anything of meaningful success.

He comes across as a lot more sincere & personable than the majority of politicians.

His appearance on the children's tv programme was excellent in getting the points across so children could understand and I can't think of any other politican who would have done it and done it so well.

He is presiding over the largest health crisis in our life time and Ireland appears to be coming out of it better than a lot of countries. I'm sure a lot of the decisions aren't taken by him but even so.

Give the man a break.

Church on Tuesday

mr_fegelien wrote: »

He's pretty handsome but his voice sounds like a fecking cartoon so ruins it

From out of nowhere!

andekwarhola

cj maxx wrote: »

The government hasn't done anything spectacular yet in the face of COVID19

What could they have done better, save restricting travel in and out of the state? They closed down schools early and - for a party like FG to be fair - closed down the publican and construction industries while guaranteeing people that have lost their jobs at least 1400 quid a month minimum and giving guidance to banks re: moratoriums etc.

I'm no supporter of FG and never will be but this is a time where governance is needed, not politics and grandstanding. Look at the UK or US for a more sobering view.

theballz

Went to school with him. Really nice chap, he’s doing a great job.