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Paul Reid to be new CEO of the HSE

  • 31-03-2019 3:23pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 5,677 ✭✭✭


    The Sunday Business Post is reproting that Paul Reid will bethe new CEO of the HSE
    https://twitter.com/susmitchellSBP/status/1112278398552948736


    Brave man! He is well regarded as the CEO of Fingal County Council, and previously had a senior role in eircom. He started there when it was the P&T, working up the telephone poles in North Dublin, but was moved fairly quickly up the organisation.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 173 ✭✭RoamingDoc


    Brave indeed!

    Best of luck to him, he'll need it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,673 ✭✭✭horse7


    I don't think he was a good choice,no medical background, a number cruncher, hasn't got a clue what to do,he loves power and wealth. Newspaper clipping ,IN HIS first full day on the job, new HSE boss Paul Reid warned that the health service that breaching budgets can “no longer be considered an option.” According to the Irish Times, Reid sent a strongly worded memo to senior HSE management seeking an... Read more ». A typical poacher turned gamekeeper, a union rep turned management, read :https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/paul-reid-has-a-record-of-delivering-big-projects-can-he-tame-the-hse-1.3925978


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭Rodin


    He's been in the post for a year.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    horse7 wrote: »
    ......IN HIS first full day on the job, new HSE boss Paul Reid warned that the health service that breaching budgets can “no longer be considered an option.” ......


    Fast forward a year, the HSE can ( thankfully ) be expected to bust its budget by a record amount. Mr Reid seems to be well able to adapt and respond to circumstances. Maybe not such a bad choice ?


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,803 ✭✭✭gifted


    Jaysus....now this thread was a real slow burner wasn't it?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭Miike


    0lddog wrote: »
    Fast forward a year, the HSE can ( thankfully ) be expected to bust its budget by a record amount. Mr Reid seems to be well able to adapt and respond to circumstances. Maybe not such a bad choice ?

    At the cost of service development across the whole of Ireland, he has achieved this "budget busting". His appointment and policy incurred significant knock back. There is purpose built buildings sitting idle as we speak because of the implications of his regime.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,872 ✭✭✭yosser hughes


    horse7 wrote: »
    I don't think he was a good choice,no medical background, a number cruncher, hasn't got a clue what to do,he loves power and wealth. Newspaper clipping ,IN HIS first full day on the job, new HSE boss Paul Reid warned that the health service that breaching budgets can “no longer be considered an option.” According to the Irish Times, Reid sent a strongly worded memo to senior HSE management seeking an... Read more ». A typical poacher turned gamekeeper, a union rep turned management, read :https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/paul-reid-has-a-record-of-delivering-big-projects-can-he-tame-the-hse-1.3925978

    I think he's been found out now anyway and is way out of his depth. In fact if you look at his C.V. he should never have been within a sniff of a role such as this. No medical background and his entire career has been working in bloated semi-states.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,814 ✭✭✭Vorsprung


    Paul Reid has been found out?

    How so?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭ThewhiteJesus


    Vorsprung wrote: »
    Paul Reid has been found out?

    How so?

    Spoofer is what he is


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭Jizique


    Spoofer is what he is

    Aithnionn ciarog ciarog eile


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭ThewhiteJesus


    Jizique wrote: »
    Aithnionn ciarog ciarog eile

    I’m no spoofer,
    Like you’re no speller.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,814 ✭✭✭Vorsprung


    Spoofer is what he is

    Fair enough, I'm convinced!


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,872 ✭✭✭yosser hughes


    Vorsprung wrote: »
    Paul Reid has been found out?

    How so?

    He could not or would not answer basic questions on RTE news last night. Despite the stage managed, fanfare with the Army trucks, Garda outriders and RTE there to film it; the PPE equipment from China is faulty.
    The figures around testing have been rendered meaningless since it's taking (a) so long to actually get a test and (b) so long to get a result.
    There's a serious morale problem now among HSE frontline staff, who cannot trust the equipment that they are being asked to use.
    Luckily for Paul Reid, the media in this country are 'green jersey' merchants rather that actual journalists who spend more time criticising Boris and Trump rather than being a bit more critical with their questioning.
    He's been promoted way beyond his level of competence and I'd question the rationale for appointing him in the first place.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,673 ✭✭✭horse7


    If anyone remembers when this all started he came on rte 6 o clock news and told the country we were well prepared and had plenty of masks and gowns etc.


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