The swirling toilet stage 2 ambulance drivers

Hold on. The GP’s were out today.

Besides. Everything that’s happening now on the health service is a direct result of FG’s ill advised austerity measures a decade ago.

Flyingsnowball wrote: »

Ambulance drivers have put their name on the list to catch the gravy train on the fecal merry go round.

It’s like a swirling toilet. Who will be next?

And what do you do yourself?

I will not begrudge nurses or emergency staff a good wage, they do some of the most important jobs going.

TDs and other such politicians don't deserve half what they get in salary, expenses and pensions. Their remuneration is ridiculous.

The "ambulance drivers" (christ alive) are simply looking for the right to choose which union represent them but I don't expect people like you to go further than a headline to find out the substance of anything though.

mad muffin wrote: »

Hold on. The GP’s were out today.

Besides. Everything that’s happening now on the health service is a direct result of FG’s ill advised austerity measures a decade ago.

And what where we supposed to do when we were broke and paying sky high interest on loans? What other department should have had its budget slashed to fund the money pit of the HSE?

artanevilla wrote: »

I would say it's actually a direct result of now FF leader Michael Martin's creation of the HSE.

There will always have to be some administration of the health services, its just done inefficiently and ineffectively, Im sure (and I know from personal experience) a lot of the people in the health service (HSE) but mainly the frontline staff are consumate professionals. The problem is the organisation and management/administration, top heavy and needs to be slashed. It wont matter what its called so just a name change is fcuk all good, when whats needed is a culture change,
while Im on it, while I believe a lot of frontline and back of house (or whatever other admin staff are called) are essential and do their job, the pisstakers at all levels should be rooted out, ie off sick for 6months for nonsense, not genuine cases and also people who cant or wont get up to date with current day/modern requirements ie know how to use tools like a PC and email and dont refuse to use learn it as part of their job (given training should be provided), performance reviews, especially for people sitting around in offices, need money funded into more nursing and and ancillary medical and support staff that twats dossing about for a career of sitting on their holes.

Miike wrote: »

The "ambulance drivers" (christ alive) are simply looking for the right to choose which union represent them but I don't expect people like you to go further than a headline to find out the substance of anything though.

Well I support that, I was appalled in this day and age that psychiatric nursing staff seem not to be allowed to determine who their own representatives body are, shows some unions to be a scam themselves.

CramCycle wrote: »

+1 FFS, they went on strike awhile ago as well, they get paid pretty **** money, I got more as a barman before college than the typical paramedic. Same with nurses. People banging on about average wages being X, rather than the fact that the median wage (ie what the typical one works on) which is much lower.

Emergency frontline staff should be well paid because, like it or not, they are not only at the coalface of our day to day lives or our family lives, they take risks beyond what most of us would ever find acceptable.

The government had a get out of jail free card with both of these. Call in the other union heads and spell it out, these are front line staff, they are getting what they want (and the paramedics really want **** all other than recognition), with a promise there would be no other strike by any other union for a predetermined time given the PSA was held too. Simple, cheap but not easy enough for any politician to suggest. FF happy for it to go on as it will damage FG, FG foolishly thinking that the public think the same about this as the LUAS and the minority parties happy to take cheap pot shots without offering real alternatives.

They're paid way more than their UK comrades.

Hopefully this Government will have the balls to finally put some manners on the public servants. Teachers must be the best paid in the world at this stage.

Birneybau wrote: »

And what do you do yourself?

I will not begrudge nurses or emergency staff a good wage, they do some of the most important jobs going.

TDs and other such politicians don't deserve half what they get in salary, expenses and pensions. Their remuneration is ridiculous.

I agree with the part about the politicians but have you anything to back up that nurses and emergency staff are underpaid for what they do, there's a perception that just because they're hospital or emergency staff that they should get what they want when they want it, is there a group think that I'm unaware of that states anyone in this line of work are automatic heroes worthy of hero status in society.

Dont get me wrong I realise it's hard work and demanding but I keep hearing just because they're front line emergency staff they have to be in the right and have every right to do what they want to get what they want, it pains me to say it but I'm with varadker and Harris on this