Reinstate Louise Bayliss - Patient Advocate and Whistleblower

[PaddyJoe]

On SixOne she was posing with Caoimhin O'Caolain - Is she an SF member?

I think that was Derek Keating, FG. Looks a bit like O'Caolain, though.
See this link:
http://www.thejournal.ie/grangegorma...35853-Jan2012/

[Baron von Biffo]

I think that was Derek Keating, FG. Looks a bit like O'Caolain, though.
See this link:
http://www.thejournal.ie/grangegorma...35853-Jan2012/

Well spotted PJ.

Is Bayliss a member of FG?

[PaddyJoe]

Well spotted PJ.

Is Bayliss a member of FG?

Don't know but I think he was one of the first TDs to get involved with the case before Christmas. My grasp of Dublin geography is lamentable but maybe Grangegorman is in that Dublin Mid West constituency?

[Vash]

Does this strike you as a good way to determine who gets to work in sensitive areas?

The way the story developed may not be ideal but I think overall she did a service by highlighting the sort of treatment that still occurs in these institutions (and this time in the name of cutting costs)

My point was a more general one. That there are many employees let go in Ireland without a correct disciplinary process/for spurious reasons (as was going to happen in this case). She happened to be lucky enough to benefit from the case already being in the public domain as a result of LIveline.

Anyway, I note that her contract is for six months. What are the odds that when the six months are up IAN will have a more credible reason for not keeping her on.

[firefox]

Lets hope many more like Louise who see alleged abuse will not be like the Wise Monkeys!See no evil,Speak no evil etc

[PaddyJoe]

The BAI has ruled against Liveline on a HSE complaint about bias:

The HSE complained that the two Liveline programmes “incorrectly and unfairly” gave the impression that the HSE had put pressure on the advocacy network to end Ms Bayliss’s contract and that this was in response to statements by her on a previous Liveline programme in December 2011 about treatment of patients at St Brendan’s hospital.

It accused the programme of giving the HSE insufficient time to respond on January 19th, of being in breach of its obligations where corroborating facts and taking the HSE view into account were concerned, and accused presenter Joe Duffy of showing bias.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...321714595.html

[Baron von Biffo]

The BAI has ruled against Liveline on a HSE complaint about bias:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...321714595.html

An unbiased Whineline - Now that would be news.