Liveline With Joe Duffy - Mod Note in OP

This is an absolute disgrace!!!!!

I'm sure a few people in this thread have worked in IT, and know that most well functioning IT departments, have a surplus of critical hardware. If you have a problem with equipment, they swap it out and you go back to work.

This woman, stuck with a malfunctioning hoist, and the HSE have gone looking for a spare part for it. Instead of just swapping out either the entire hoist, or swap out the part.

Something seriously needs to be done about the HSE.

Joe going to at break to give her a break.. no, to give you a break from your silences

This is a very dignified woman on the line. She should not need to put up with the crap she is deaingl with

WTF there's no moratorium any more, and what has that got to do with talking about carers allowance! Fool

That’s a question that never gets asked or answered on liveline

I'm always amazed at the amount of claims and entitlements that people who are classed as lower class/ less educated know what to claim for and what they should be getting!,

They would be able to fill out the forms for these people

€350k//year telephonist moaning about means-testing

they could just print that hoist part with a 3d printer, would cost less than €50

Liveline trending on X/Twitter.

A part needed from Germany, for 2 feckin years?!?

We are such a small country, there is no excuse for there not to be a warehouse somewhere, with "Council House Security Gate Type II" in it, for this kind of thing. Similarly, why doesn't the HSE have a ware house with spare hoists in it?

When my father was dying he was on a waiting list for a hospice in Galway. We were literally praying for a person to die so he could get a bed in one. Unfortunately they held on and my father died in a ward of other men.

Galway Hospice had high-hopes of building a new €20m, 36-bed facility on the grounds of Merlin Park Hospital and was granted planning permission in 2018 by Galway City Council.

This was overturned on appeal, however, in 2019 by An Bord Pleanála which ruled that the development would be “inappropriate and contrary to policies to protect natural heritage”.

That was in 2019, meanwhile people are dying on wards.

I was being facetious as well you know, but the point still stands,

I get the whole tendering business, Ive been involved in it. Still no excuse for them not tendering out for a supplier of hoists that can guarantee onsite repair or replacement within 24 hours.

Something like 2bn humans globally are abjectly poor, yet we think it normal to burn perfectly good stuff. Do the Greens have a viewpoint?

They're needed for work.