Health Minister Reilly's "Stroke Politics"

[DCon]

Reilly is going to send his colleagues in FG a monthly email outlining which Constituencies will be the benefactors of his largesse.

Poor old Labour will continue to be kept in the dark I assume

EMBATTLED Health Minister James Reilly has vowed to keep his Fine Gael colleagues 'up to the month' on developments in his department.

THE troubled TD claimed that some ongoing controversies are solely down to bad communication.

But his solution of a monthly email may not reassure disgruntled backbenchers.

http://www.herald.ie/news/reilly-vow...l-3250604.html

[DCon]

“…Dr Reilly held a meeting with Phil Hogan in relation to primary care centres, before he added a centre in the Environment Minister’s constituency to a list of where they should be located.”

http://www.broadsheet.ie/

[MPB]

http://www.broadsheet.ie/

Of course he did.

Balbriggan and Swords will be traveller free in return.

Although James Reilly has insured they will always have a dodgy element. Not one they should be proud of.

[Baron von Biffo]

“…Dr Reilly held a meeting with Phil Hogan in relation to primary care centres, before he added a centre in the Environment Minister’s constituency to a list of where they should be located.”

http://www.broadsheet.ie/

We really shouldn't be surprised at this because it's always the way we've done business here. Whenever there's an announcement of goodies have a look in the Constituency winners and losers thread and spot the correlation between allocations and the rank of constituency TDs.

[MPB]

We really shouldn't be surprised at this because it's always the way we've done business here. Whenever there's an announcement of goodies have a look in the Constituency winners and losers thread and spot the correlation between allocations and the rank of constituency TDs.

A pity you don,t see the same vote buying when it comes to the PS.

I wonder do you consider hypocricy an Irish trait?

[Baron von Biffo]

A pity you don,t see the same vote buying when it comes to the PS.

I wonder do you consider hypocricy an Irish trait?

Buying people with constant attacks on their pay and conditions?

Do you think foolishness is an Irish trait?

[MPB]

Buying people with constant attacks on their pay and conditions?

Do you think foolishness is an Irish trait?

Whose pay and conditions?

Would it be their new comrades? Do you know any workers or any Union that would sellout their their new members to protect themselves?

Do you know the meaning of the word Union?

The Private sector have been gutted. Nothing we can do about it. Just get on with it.

The Public Sector have turned on themselves and should be ashamed of themselves.

Imagine cutting the pay of the unprotected.

This treachoury will come back to haunt them and rightly so. It is disgusting.

[C. Flower]

Sunday Business Post is reporting that Balbriggan was a done deal by the HSE, and that Reilly had informed the town council about it, before the list of primary care centres was completed.

If this is the case, Shorthall was being played for a complete fool and her resignation was the logical conclusion.

[DCon]

The Mail on Sunday have some new info on everyon's favourite Doctor turned property speculator

The Irish Mail on Sunday can today reveal the links between James Reilly and the developer building a controversial HSE primary care centre in Swords.

The contract for the centre is set to be awarded to the Ardruim Partnership, which includes builder Jim Donlon. Mr Donlon was yesterday quoted as saying he did not know Dr Reilly and had not lobbied him in relation to the deal.

However, the MoS can reveal that during the boom, Mr Donlon built luxury houses on lands that had been bought from Dr Reilly.

Official records seen by the MoS show that Dr Reilly and his wife had owned the site in Balrothery, north Dublin, since 1992.

His wife twice applied for planning permission for a development on the site, first in 1999, then in late 2000. Both applications were refused. A new planning application for the site, which didn’t mention the owners’ names, was brought by UK-based architectural firm in March 2004.

The planning permission was granted in July 2004, when Dr Reilly still owned the site.

In October 2005, Mr Donlon’s company, James Donlon Builders Ltd, took out an AIB mortgage secured on the property.

Company accounts show that a ‘charge on land’ was registered by AIB on October 10, 2005, secured on the Land Registry folio owned by Dr Reilly at the time.

The mortgage was registered to the folio with a note to say the property was ‘as more particularly described in a contract dated the third of October 2005 and made between Gerard Murphy and Mary Murphy of the one part and Jim Donlon (Builders) Ltd of the other part’.

Mr Donlon is a long-time Fianna Fáil supporter and was appointed to the board of the National Roads Authority by then transport minister, Pat Carey. It was one of a rush of late appointments to State boards in March 2011 just before Fianna Fáil lost power.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz28ZgKsmSZ

[DCon]

How many PCC's does Hogan want for Kilkenny? 1 for every home?

Environment Minister Phil Hogan has denied lobbying James Reilly to locate a primary care centre in his Kilkenny constituency.

This is despite the fact that the Health Minister met Mr Hogan on February 29 to discuss primary care.

The meeting is recorded in Dr Reilly’s ministerial diary where the entry reads ‘re primary care’.
Kilkenny was one of several last-minute locations controversially handpicked by Dr Reilly for an HSE-funded primary care centre this summer.

This is despite Kilkenny already having a primary care centre, which Mr Hogan opened himself last February 10.

A new primary care centre was opened in Callan, Co. Kilkenny, in February of this year.

At this point, Kilkenny was not on the original list of 20 proposed primary care centres, compiled by Miss Shortall.

But a week later six locations were added, with Portumna in Galway getting dropped from the original list.

By July 12 the list was expanded to 30, with 15 changes made to Shortall’s original 20.

Five days later, on July 17, 35 locations were published as part of the Government’s stimulus package – which included the previously unlisted Kilkenny.

A spokeswoman for Mr Hogan said he ‘did not make any representations to Minister Reilly for a primary care centre in Kilkenny’.

When the centre was opened in Callan, Mr Hogan spoke at the official launch.

He said: ‘The Callan primary care centre has been purpose-built and stands as a model of delivery of primary care into the 21st century.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz28bXAVbmj

[Baron von Biffo]

Whose pay and conditions?

Would it be their new comrades? Do you know any workers or any Union that would sellout their their new members to protect themselves?

Do you know the meaning of the word Union?

The Private sector have been gutted. Nothing we can do about it. Just get on with it.

The Public Sector have turned on themselves and should be ashamed of themselves.

Imagine cutting the pay of the unprotected.

This treachoury will come back to haunt them and rightly so. It is disgusting.

Crocodile tears for new teachers don't fool anyone. You don't want to see them paid more, you're agenda is to have current teachers paid less. The 'Parity of Misery' agenda of the right wing.

[Captain Con O'Sullivan]

Personally when it comes to the teaching profession there is a lot of fat to be cut before one ever reaches the teachers in classrooms.

I've never seen such a herd of 'representative' organisations as the teaching professions in Ireland have.

22 educational centres around the country which requires its own quango to operate and in the main which are not open to the communities in which they are situated but are reserved for elective teacher training.

And these centres require of course a national secretariat which is charged to the Dept of Education budget.

And then of course there are the mileage claims which can be claimed back from the Dept f Education- the attendance of members at international conferences where they put their heads together to come up with newer and better ways for teachers to enhance the teaching experience- for example there was a suggestion at a conference in Spain which enchanted the Irish representative enough to report back that some teachers had managed to swing free second language courses inclusive of travel to the country involved and all that their Department's expense.

Seriously- there is plenty of fat around the teaching profession and its various levels of 'representative organisations' which are not unions which could be cut without ever removing a teacher from a classroom.

That profession have got away with budgetary murder in Ireland for decades right through from the 'leave of absence' to be a politician caper to the old con of retiring and being hired back on as a temporary teacher, thereby bedblocking the appointment of new teachers and so on.

It has been such a cossetted profession that as I've mentioned before one of the teacher's union reps claimed on national radio that 'teachers are the creme de la creme of Irish society'.

That is how bad and how arrogant that profession have become. The amount of money being siphoned off out of the DofE budget by that profession is extraordinary. And the same old bullshyte is in evidence around the waste- the minute the budget is mentioned everyone with a teaching degree is suddenly 'frontline'.

Lies.

[MPB]

Crocodile tears for new teachers don't fool anyone. You don't want to see them paid more, you're agenda is to have current teachers paid less. The 'Parity of Misery' agenda of the right wing.

Wrong. I have no wish to cut the pay of anyone.

As I said on another thread, there are plenty of ways to cut the Public Sector budget.

No need for a Dept of Health and a HSE for a start. No need for and IDA and a Ministry for Jobs and Enterprise. No need for a Ministery for Sport, Tourism or Transport. No need for 34 local Co Councils ,no need for anymore than 100 TDs.

I could go on, but have not got the time to be pointing out the blindingly obvious.

[Holly]

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I've never seen such a herd of 'representative' organisations as the teaching professions in Ireland have. ...

You can say that again.

That profession have got away with budgetary murder in Ireland for decades right through from the 'leave of absence' to be a politician caper to the old con of retiring and being hired back on as a temporary teacher, thereby bedblocking the appointment of new teachers and so on.

Precisely.

It has been such a cossetted profession that as I've mentioned before one of the teacher's union reps claimed on national radio that 'teachers are the creme de la creme of Irish society'.

Pass the vomit bag.

[Baron von Biffo]

Wrong. I have no wish to cut the pay of anyone.

As I said on another thread, there are plenty of ways to cut the Public Sector budget.

No need for a Dept of Health and a HSE for a start. No need for and IDA and a Ministry for Jobs and Enterprise. No need for a Ministery for Sport, Tourism or Transport. No need for 34 local Co Councils ,no need for anymore than 100 TDs.

I could go on, but have not got the time to be pointing out the blindingly obvious.

You don't want to cut pay, you just want to put thousands of people out of work. Glad you cleared that up.