No quitten we're whelan onto chitchat 12.

I hope ye all got the holy water done for May eve last night… Question for ye....

It's hard to get quotes from painters not to mind getting someone to go a job.

I have a 2 storey house here about 40 feet by 30 feet with a small room to one side. Standard enough detached two storey in the countryside.

A painter has quoted me almost 5k to powerwash, primer and 2 coats of quality paint. Do ye think that is about right?

Does anyone know if your neighbour is locked up with tb and I'm gone over 5 months heading for the 6th month since last passed tb test, am I going to be asked to test. Has the 4 month rule being changed to 6 months

GP's etc. are not legally obligated to automatically take on medical card holders. There's also the insinuation that the 'rather large list' of immigrants become and immediate drain on the health system once they've a medical card in hand. We build facilities for patients with the local councillor & politician fanfare; but haven't the resources in place to run them. The number of doctors we train & retain is a bigger issue for all of us.

 almost like you're getting paid to house them.

There's always these lines bandied about "you must work for government" / "you must be getting paid"

I've been critical of how people questioning immigration is being handled and how IPAS centre/housing of asylum seekers is suspect.

Wrong, they will take them on or risk loosing their medical card list. That's straight from a GP.

Nope. I am correct; they are in no way at risk of losing their medical card risk - why? Because there's a massive shortage of doctors and medical staff. They also cannot possible work 24/7 so they can and do refuse medical card holders routinely. That's also straight from a GP.

Ok, you're correct because you say so, i got my info from not justy own GP but my next door neighbour who is also a GP. There is no legal obligation because imagine the uproar if they were legally obligated to take them and then not able to take on Irish patients. I have it from the GP as I've already said, that they risk loosing the GP list. I believe the GP over you anyday.

No; as I said mine is also from a GP.

GP's limit the numbers they take on, having a medical card doesn't mean they can force there way on to a list.

There is no legal obligation because imagine the uproar 

So you agree then? It's not a legal requirement, they can and do limit numbers. They simply cannot lose their medical card list over it.

I never said there was a legal requirement.

Well then they don't have to take them on, and do routinely say no. This categorically does not result in them losing medical card holders already on their books.

My neighbour a GP as I mentioned, got a list of 350 to put on her books. The man that does my digger work went to her to get on her patient list as his GP had passed away, this was about the same time she got her imaginary list, and she had to refuse him on the ground that her patient list had passed what she could handle.

They obviously had capacity to take on 350+. My GP simply couldn't.

But if it was an "imaginary list" why was the other guy refused??

That's the thing these lefty liberals can't seem to get their head around. I was in Australia myself on a WHV a few years back and I'm going to be emigrating in the near 5 again. Why did I leave Australia the time I did well simply because I wasn't going to overstay and said I'd get a trade instead and I can head back LEGALLY if it something I ever want to do. I hadn't much time for the illegal Irish I knew over there at the time most of them were pissheads who couldn't hold a job and the only way they contributed to Australia was through taxes on drink and fags. I'm working with immigrants everyday of the week from all over the place and they even have no time for these wasters coming into the country and why would they they had to go through a process to get into the country and have a skill in demand not like the passport flushers coming over here with the hand out.

Jez you need to have a look about online and realise there is a a massive cohort of the right who have a problem with all immigrants working or not, law abiding or not.

As for working vs not working, we have families of “our own” here where nobody has had a job in three generations, I’d rather see them scrutinised than someone who has just arrived and is likely to get a job given the chance.

I didn't think straight price was too bad.

Painted The home place recently. Was 12 months waiting on the painter aswell. And he said at the start he would be a year.

I'm waiting 12 months for this fella too. He does sound expensive but I probably have about 2500 sq ft. of walls. A coat of primer and 2 coats of quality paint supplied. Hire of cherry picker included. And vat included. It's a rob alright but might not be far off the going rate for a proper job. Can hardly get a quote off anyone else.

Yep, my teacher for the last three years in three teacher primary school was the headmaster and he chain smoked in the classroom all day long.

This fella Is 500 euro roughly to wash the house including chimneys, facia, soffit, etc. Also includes the cherry picker hire. Wouldn't be worth my while washing it myself.