Tony O Brien and Simon Harris

tretorn · 05-11-2018 2:02pm #1

I cant post a link too the interview Tony O Brien gave to the Sunday Business Post but he basically said Simon Harris behaved like a frightened little boy in the cervical scandal scandal. He also sa id the Public Account Committee was like a kangeroo court and Sinn Feins behaviour t it was the worst of all the Political parties. He had special mention for Marc Mc Sharry, he called him the angriest man in Ireland.

This seems to be a new for Public Servants, actually saying things as they are.

I agree with him about Harris and I heard Mary Lou McDonald shouting in the early stages about how awful the cervical cancer mess was, she shut up fast once she got a grasp of the facts and she hasnt associated herself with it since.

I heard Marc Mc Sharry ranting on radio about it too and he was appalling, I looked him up to see who he was because I had never heard of him prior to him climbing on the soapbox/wanderly waggon.

I think Tony O Brien has made some very good points.

DChancer · 05-11-2018 3:54pm

O'Brien is a disgrace.
His stewardship of the HSE was marked by scanal after scandal lies and cover ups.

theguzman · 05-11-2018 4:11pm

The HSe should be totally privatised and there needs to be up to 50,000 immediate firings and redundancies. The amount of bureaucracy, management and general jobsworth pencil pushers is a total disgrace. Meanwhile Nurses, Doctors and frontline staff are shortchanged with lack of staff and lower payscales. The HSE is corrupt to the core and it should be privatised with payment from the state based on healthcare delivered to patients. The waiting lists would quickly shorten. Like everything in Ireland the diseases of liberalism and trade-unions have wrecked everything. We pay over 70% in total tax and get nothing in return.

Deise Vu · 05-11-2018 4:28pm

I happen to agree with Tony O'Brien on his attack on the minister. We nearly lost the cervical screening programme entirely because Simon was so busy virtue signalling that it never seemed to dawn on him that the cervical screen contractors would need more money to spend more time on the screening and also would need to be compensated for the Ministers and Taoiseach's folly in basically deciding that the cervical screening program would work on the basis of "we find your cancer or give you €7.5M". What the hell is this going to cost us going forward? Did he even manage to get the Americans back on board?

A month after a budget which increased Health spending by something like €1.2 Bn, the consultants are all over the news saying our trolley crisis this year will be the worst ever unless we hire even more staff and pay them even more.

The Govt spend on Health will be around €17Bn next year, plus the standard over-run, plus the €5Bn or so that the HSE gets from sources other than the Govt (Charging Health insurers, A&E fees, X-Ray charges, car parking etc). That's a total spend of over €22Bn on a population of 4.5M. That's roughly €5K for every man woman and child in the country. That is utter madness and all the vested interests keep banging on looking for more and more funds to bung into a totally dysfunctional system. Its all building nicely for our next financial crisis. It's a good job all is rosy in the garden and we will never see another bad day again. Brexit? Sure that's the Brits' problem, we're grand.

RobertKK · 05-11-2018 4:30pm

DChancer wrote: »

O'Brien is a disgrace.
His stewardship of the HSE was marked by scanal after scandal lies and cover ups.

Well at least the ministers for health, both past and present had no responsibility for him having the job...

Raheem Euro · 05-11-2018 4:33pm

Someone needs to go over to someone else in the hospital and shout in their face "Damn it, when we screw up patients die" followed by a fight. Then the Dean calms matters in her office.

topper75 · 05-11-2018 4:42pm

Raheem Euro wrote: »

Someone needs to go over to someone else in the hospital and shout in their face "Damn it, when we screw up patients die" followed by a fight. Then the Dean calms matters in her office.

Sounds good to me. Let's shoot a pilot and see how it is received.

KilOit · 05-11-2018 4:44pm

theguzman wrote: »

The HSe should be totally privatised and there needs to be up to 50,000 immediate firings and redundancies. The amount of bureaucracy, management and general jobsworth pencil pushers is a total disgrace. Meanwhile Nurses, Doctors and frontline staff are shortchanged with lack of staff and lower payscales. The HSE is corrupt to the core and it should be privatised with payment from the state based on healthcare delivered to patients. The waiting lists would quickly shorten. Like everything in Ireland the diseases of liberalism and trade-unions have wrecked everything. We pay over 70% in total tax and get nothing in return.

That's what the government wants. Only people losing out will be the general public when its ran like a business. No money? Tough ****

Lollipops23 · 05-11-2018 5:07pm

This was Harney's doing. She was Minister when the contract was tendered for the programme was she not?

Lazy sack of sh*t; Harris has already done more for this country than that C*NT ever did.

05-11-2018 5:11pm

theguzman wrote: »

The HSe should be totally privatised and there needs to be up to 50,000 immediate firings and redundancies.

Oh Jesus. So much wrong.

Raheem Euro · 05-11-2018 5:13pm

We could set up a utiliy. Irish Health.
Install meters on the beds.

theguzman · 05-11-2018 8:22pm

I was calling for the HSE to be run by private enterprise but for the status quo of coverage levels to remain the same.

E.g. The NCT is privately run on behalf of the Government, why not run the HSE privately on behalf of the people, poor or rich but instead of political pigs at the trough and crony appointments run it as a business where they make money from treating patients.

The HSE currently is a disgrace and totally not fit for purpose, it burns through over €12 billion a year and its biggest function is as a social employment scheme for crony political hack appointments and patients and actual healthcare come far down the pecking order.

Beechwoodspark · 05-11-2018 8:26pm

Simple Simon is interested in one thing and one thing only

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TheValeyard · 05-11-2018 8:27pm

Are we sure Simon Harris isnt actually a 12 year old boy?

theguzman · 05-11-2018 8:28pm

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Simple Simon is interested in one thing and one thing only

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He has been totally obsessed with Abortion and spent more time of social issues than actual Healthcare. Whilst these are very valid and important issues, it seems that small minor issues are getting far more priority than the bigger picture at work here.

Odhinn · 05-11-2018 8:35pm

tretorn wrote: »

I cant post a link too the interview Tony O Brien gave to the Sunday Business Post but he basically said Simon Harris behaved like a frightened little boy in the cervical scandal scandal. He also sa id the Public Account Committee was like a kangeroo court and Sinn Feins behaviour t it was the worst of all the Political parties. He had special mention for Marc Mc Sharry, he called him the angriest man in Ireland.

This seems to be a new for Public Servants, actually saying things as they are.

I agree with him about Harris and I heard Mary Lou McDonald shouting in the early stages about how awful the cervical cancer mess was, she shut up fast once she got a grasp of the facts and she hasnt associated herself with it since.

I heard Marc Mc Sharry ranting on radio about it too and he was appalling, I looked him up to see who he was because I had never heard of him prior to him climbing on the soapbox/wanderly waggon.

I think Tony O Brien has made some very good points.

He should invest in a few white t-shirts and call out harris by way of a you tube video. Harris should reply in the same manner.

Tony O Brien and Simon Harris

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