Home Helps and Personal Assistants - Cuts and Conditions - What's the Story ?

[Baron von Biffo]

eh, now?

Tell me what it is if not protecting PS jobs from recession?

It's a blank cheque from the workers to their employer in return for an unenforceable aspiration that there won't be further cuts in pay or jobs.

[PaddyJoe]

Story in the Examiner on Thursday that 35 million is to be cut from the mental health budget. Time for Kathleen Lynch to take cover.

March 18th, 2011
Mental Health Reform is pleased at the appointment of Kathleen Lynch TD as Minister of State with responsibility for Mental Health. A key part of Minister Lynch’s brief will be to progress the welcome commitments contained in the Programme for Government including:

Implementation of the recommendations of A Vision for Change – including the ring-fencing of €35 million annually for community mental health services and the implementation of Reach Out;

http://www.mentalhealthreform.ie/blo...mental-health/

[C. Flower]

Good report in the IT, by Kathy Sheridan.

Impressive people, the protestors.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...9K8tYA.twitter

[C. Flower]

Story in the Examiner on Thursday that 35 million is to be cut from the mental health budget. Time for Kathleen Lynch to take cover.

http://www.mentalhealthreform.ie/blo...mental-health/

The Mental Health budget has been raided over the ring fence every year since it started.

[PaddyJoe]

Prime Time has a report coming up on RTE1 in a moment. James Reilly has come out of hiding to do a live interview.

[Andrew49]

Reilly quoting numbers/figures and totally avoiding the human element. Health service my arse!

[Dr. FIVE]

poor stuff from Reilly

[PaddyJoe]

Richard Crowley did a good job there. Reilly really struggled and looked like a beaten man at the end as he tried to get in his soundbite about absenteeism in hospitals.
Good trick by Crowley to say 'we're nearly out of time' about eight minute before the end of the interview

[Baron von Biffo]

Gump says Reilly is to be praised for making a U-turn on disability cuts but Reilly says there were no cuts in the first place so he made no U-turn.

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...n-3222497.html

Not content with slavishly following FF policies, the government is aping their chaotic style as well.

[C. Flower]

Not so sure about this U-turn. I haven't heard any clear and unequivocal statement that Personal assistants hours will not be reduced.

[Baron von Biffo]

Not so sure about this U-turn. I haven't heard any clear and unequivocal statement that Personal assistants hours will not be reduced.

Didn't the HSE send a letter to that effect to those on the Dail protest?

[C. Flower]

Didn't the HSE send a letter to that effect to those on the Dail protest?

The wording as repeated on RTE was something to the effect of "the cuts as announced will not take place"

Not the same as saying there will be no cuts.

[DCon]

The wording as repeated on RTE was something to the effect of "the cuts as announced will not take place"

Not the same as saying there will be no cuts.

Also, only the current recipients have had their funding levels kept as is.

Future recipients will be subject to cuts.

It is a Croke park agreement for the disabled.

[C. Flower]

It's all about keeping the hissing to a minimum while you pluck the goose.

[Dr. FIVE]

http://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion...ly-206845.html