Leo Varadkar resigns as Taoiseach

You just posted you mocked them, personally I have friends who vote for whichever party they want to and I would never feel the need to mock them over it. It's a personal decision and anyone who would mock me over voting for a party would be quickly told to exit stage left

You really are p*ss taker.

How many villages and towns are there in County Clare that still have to find their way to overcrowded A&E in Limerick or Galway.

Or do you think everyone should live in Ennis and Shannon.

Sitting waiting for ambulance in the middle of the town of Kilkee or the village of Liscannor is the same as sitting in a farmhouse outside either of these.

The ambulance still may be hours away.

You and your mates keep telling yourselves that it was all because he was gay and of non Irish descent. 🙄

The thing is I bet most people couldn't give a feck if he was riding a sheep and wearing a turban if he was actually doing some good for us the Irish people.

It was himself that first brought his sexuality into it, it was himself that brought divisive modern left liberal identity politics into mainstream Irish political life all because it appealed to the twitter loving generations.

I suppose you reckon we overwhelmingly rejected his referendums because we are homophobic and racist or maybe we are just country thickos and urban scumbags.

Of course you turn to the right wing politics as if Ireland is full of neo nazis.

Besides you never ever actually stand back and wonder why are real right wing parties on the rise throughout Europe.

How did he bring "modern left liberal identity politics into mainstream Irish political life"?

What do I think of the job that doctors and nurses are doing in Limerick hospital? I really don't have an opinion.

What do I think of the job that local management are doing in Limerick hospital? I really don't have an opinion.

What do I think of the job that regional HSE management are doing in the area? I really don't have an opinion.

What I do know is that the HSE have been provided with the funding, with the resources and with the support from government. In some places they are doing a good job, and in others it is not working out. The reasons lie in one of the three questions above, which one provides the answer, I don't know, but it is not the fault of central government or the Departmental civil service.

I just go on what I do know. There are problems in Limerick hospital. They are not caused by lack of funding, they are not caused by governmental policy. Somewhere else in the system is the root of the problem.

Edit: What has any of it to do with Leo? I won't develop any further unless you provide some link to the thread.

Bullcr**.

We have a critical mass of people in the Limerick urban area, about a 102,000 as far as I know.

Yet we have a fooked situation where the A&E in main hospital is overrun and there are not enough hospital beds in the hospital itself.

The people could all live in Raheen/dooradoyle in tower blocks ala Singapore and it makes fook all difference.

Investment in beds and front line staff, investment in primary care in the communities is what is needed not more managers.

No one ever brings up this crap about everyone wanting a hospital, university, bank, public transport hub at the end of every boreen except the government and public sector apologists like yourself and the ideology greens who despise anyone living rurally.

It is also just a snide condescending way of referring to people that don't happen to live in our major cities, and the main one in particular.

And before you say this has nothing to do with old Leo.

He is the guy meant to be in charge of our state and part of that is the states services to our people.

Or are you a true Leoite in that you only take the good news stories and runaway from the inconvenient bad news.

Pure rubbish

This has been going on for yonks, the HSE heads are getting paid enough.

The money is there, they should sort it out.

How come other hospitals can work this out and the same problems arise in the same areas.

This is a standard response from those who stoutly and blindly defend government policies of the day. Not just you - you see it here all the time on the immigration debate threads

First of all, yous insist everything is fine & dandy.

Frustrated members of the public then point out problems that are chronic.

Yous then sort of acknowledge this but deflect by putting the blame on individuals or bodies for not doing more.

Then back to insisting everything is fine & dandy. Frustrated members of the public then point out problems that are chronic

Rinse & repeat.

It's a whole confluence of issues. There's horrendously bad planning / no planning at all from what I can see.

It's very clear that Limerick in particular, but also Cork has FAR too few beds and the hospital capacity hasn't kept pace with the scale of development. Meanwhile, we have lashed billions at a massively over spec'd children's hospital that has dragged on chaotically missing every deadline and blowing every budget.

It's a bit like being told to renovate the house, and coming back with a Fabergé Egg, while the roof's falling off the kitchen.

There's a chaotic structure - nobody seems to know what anyone's doing and there's so many organisations involved it's hard to even keep track.

There's extreme inertia and vested interests who simply do not want change, even though the whole system's falling down around them.

They treat staff badly and burn them out with unreasonable work practices, causing them to loose people to other systems.

Then you've massive structural issues like inadequate primary care putting huge pressure on A&E and what seem to be a lack of all sorts of ancillary services that would reduce pressure on acute hospitals.

None of this stuff is acceptable politically - and it's feeding in to public anger with the government and even just a sense that people are fed up with politics in general. That's not a good situation.

Imperfect as the service are they are a long, long way from what we had here in the past never mind what you’d find in the third world.

Got to disagree. I think the growth is because of the perceived appearance of the government not giving a crap about Irish People and the dismissive way people are dealt with by government representatives and supporters.

Stephen.

Donnelly was lambasting Harris in the Dail over the trolley crisis in 2019. Harris' failures eventually brought down the government.

Now the current health minister is only allowed out to speak on special occasions. Where does he be hiding?

He is like Neal Richmond, aiming to become the world hide and seek champion.

What a bleak view for those who 'live outside the M50'. What you are inferring is that investment should only go into the large urban areas. For example we live near enough two largish towns and yet you'd still have to travel 50 miles to get to a decent hospital, so clearly these towns are not in your head.

So what happens when you and your ilk want to go off on your w/e break in Ireland? With that vision, you'll find no services, no shops, cafes, pubs, few people except our new immigrant friends that your buddies are keen on importing and distributing to the far shores.

But then it's quite likely yous wouldn't be bothered going on a w/e or weeks holiday here. Sure why wouldn't you hop on a metro out to the airport, jet off and spend yer money elsewhere. There's more to be being a patriotic citizen that waffling on about constitutional matters and quoting international law..

You cant fire civil servants for lack of performance. When was the last time a minister actually fired someone?