Liveline Thread 20/7/2013 to 12/10/2013

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

So you're excusing the Minister for Health for adopting a Pontius Pilate approach and washing his hands of it all?

Spending is the problem. Howlin went looking for cuts and was told "Shure the gardai need their custom made austrian leather boots and the nurses need their swiss watches". He proposed 77 cuts of which none were taken.

I'm looking at my bank account and Im looking at my bills. I have a domestic waste charge and an esb bill that need to be paid in the next couple of days and I have 100 euros left until next week.. Id love a night out with guinness flowing and a few shorts but I cant afford it. So Im going to have a few quiet nights in. Haddington and Croke Park meant pay couldnt be touched. Reilly doesnt have the power to tell the Rotunda to stop using paperclips, that duty falls to the faceless administrator whose name neither you nor I know, and he or her has decided to cut patient services instead.

I know you're angry. You should be. But this country is too full of people feathering their own nest. Laying all the blame at james Reilly is a little misguided. Its the faceless administrators who should bear some of the blame. Elect someone else, but the Admins will remain.

However, I sympathise, its harder to target disgust at faceless administrators than one individual.

lol

JonathanAnon wrote: »

It seems that the only companies who have money for advertising on radio are banks, insurance companies and pension companies..... Didnt they all go bust or did I just dream all that..

I had the same dream!