The Healy Raes

Government Departments are not allowed to discuss individual cases with TDs due to GDPR.

They are FFS.

2.9 The department also develops and provides services via contracted agencies/ bodies that may in turn collect information from you on behalf of the department. These agencies/ bodies include Branch Office providers of welfare services, medical practitioners (certifying eligibility to illness and disability schemes) and providers of employment and community services (including Community Employment Schemes, Intreo Partners Local Area Employment Services, Intreo Partners National Employment Service, EmployAbility, Tús and JobPath). The agencies/bodies are all engaged under legally binding contracts that require adherence to GDPR rules;

2.10 We may also collect data from TDs or councillors acting on your behalf, or from other people, approved by you to act on your behalf.

If someone gives a TD consent to help with an appeal that is completely within the boundaries of GDRP.

Both hamstrings gone with that stretch.

Honestly have you never heard of a TD helping with a grant application, medical cards, school placements, special needs resourcing, social welfare, housing, etc?

It's fully within in their remit and they are more than entitled to act in the interest of their constituents.

No. I aware if many cases of TDs claiming to help, but none where people got something they had no entitlement to - that would be corruption/fraud.

Who said anything about people getting what they weren't entitled to?

On the GDPR issue, what you supplied says that the organisation you quote recieves data from TDs - which may happen. However, Departnents do not discuss a case or respond to TDs with any personal information - they only deal directly with the individual.

I don't see how that is relevant.

But once you authorise someone to act your behalf they can act on your behalf, as long as it is inline with GDRP.

If you will like to link to where you are reading this information that states they can't, I will gladly take a look.

es, individuals can appoint people to represent them - but this requires some legal paperwork to be done. Often solicitors will represent individuals in some complex matters.

What in the name of sweet tangent Jesus are you after going now?

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That is the AI response you just Googled. 😂

But you left out this for some reason.

Departments are restricted by GDPR and privacy rules from sharing specific case data with third parties—including TDs—without explicit consent from the applicant.

I didn't look up AI, you did.

Anyway since you won't budge from your own reality. We will leave the last word to the man in question, outlining in an interview exactly what he does to help constituents.

https://www.medicalindependent.ie/in-the-news/interviews/putting-the-politics-into-health/

He claimed “the biggest lie that is out there is on the [medical card application] form, where it tells you to get evidence from your GP… But once a medical report goes in and they see in the heading that it is from a GP, they actually disregard it. They take no notice of the comments that are presented. None whatsoever. The report now has to be from a consultant. And if it is not from a consultant, you will not get a medical card. Nobody will admit this in the health service… When I ask for cases to be investigated by supervisors to see why an application was not accepted on a discretionary basis, what I’m told is ‘lack of medical evidence’, even though the GP would have given detailed medical evidence. But the story is then, ‘well, get it from a consultant’.”

Its actually a lot more effective to get advice from your local citizens information office than your local TD.

I was advised recently to contact my local TD's wife by a Citizens Information Officer in relation to a medical card issue.

Obviously you detest a lot of Limerick people then. That's really not a healthy way to live your life.

He hadn't the grace to inform the Minister of Ag, his senior manager. MM would have always considered the Healy Raes, political friends. Kerry won't be receiving and more favourable treatment. The gravy train to the HRs will be stopped.

https://bsky.app/profile/robosullivan.bsky.social/post/3mjkz3zp6tk2g Caught putting his name to a pro-sitka spruce children's book, greenwashing and misleading kids about how sitka spruces HELP the environment, when it is the opposite.

He makes me so angry.

They still have votes they can sell.

It's not like the government have what you would call a healthy majority.

their reputations are rubbish now because they have zero credibility, if they stand up in the dail to criticize the government they will be ridiculed by everyone including SF. Who will buy their votes after this ?

But which he himself was a key part of, he had a bigger role in the government than all the government back benchers. He was also key in the negotiations over fuel taxes that weekend, he will definitely not be let away with this, he is hated in the SF ranks anyway and much of the opposition. What he did last week was too naked and obvious it wasn't cute or shrewd at all because it was so obvious