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GPs struggle under weight of government handing out medical cards like sweets

A Bray GP has said that having one foreign patient takes up as much time at his practice that having 10 – 15 Irish patients would. Sounds shocking but it makes sense if you think about it. 

It’s no secret that there is a shortage of GPs services in many parts of Ireland. As I write this I have been left waiting for six days to learn the results of an x-ray I had on my ankle last Tuesday. 

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Cal
11 days ago

Once these fakeugees are loaded to the gills with every freebie of the day – with absolutely no expectation or contract that they will contribute to society or the economy – what do the gvt think will happen. To be directed to social welfare and then sign up for a part time adult ed course – which the ETBs have become nothing more than a day centre for these fakeugees to pass the time. The services are being abused right left and center. The Irish are being walked on by the people who are supposed to be representing them.
Frustrating outlook. Boiling point has been surpassed. Roll on elections

James Mcguinness
11 days ago

GPS STRUGGLE UNDER WEIGHT OF GOVERNMENT HANDING OUT MEDICAL CARDS LIKE SWEETS TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO HAVE NO BUSINESS BEING IN THE COUNTRY

SHANE
11 days ago

No doctors and engineers so.

James Mcguinness
11 days ago
Reply to  SHANE

Lol…. No, plenty of perverts, lunatics and scroungers though. Seems like our money is like sweeties as well.

PaddyBob
11 days ago

Don’t fret James… or laugh… the realisation that it is only a fiat currency will hit us soon enough. The World cannot have functioning CBDCs, unless it has a 100% debt-forgiveness-treaty.

Last edited 11 days ago by PaddyBob
James Mcguinness
11 days ago
Reply to  PaddyBob

Its funny alright how mcgrath hopped on the bandwagon of protecting cash when he knows dam well that the cabal will burst the countries debt bubbles causing a hyper inflation making zimbabwes hyperinflation look like a mild inconvenience. Be interesting when the mortgage interest rates jump to 1000pc when the banks go bust and all debt is transferred to the vultures. But I guess thats the way these parasites in the dail work, take something to get them votes and hide the rest of the truth.

Hamtramck
11 days ago

Ireland is broken. Broken by a cadre of woke ideologues who don’t know the first thing about running a country. Rembrr this at the ballot box vote these @&€ts out – everyone single one of them are amadans …Aaaaahhhhhhh! Our government are wilfully putting Irish lives at risk

Andrew Devine
11 days ago

I worked in a GPs surgery during 2022-23 in Dublin. The surgery wasn’t taking new patients apart from an extra allocation of those who were appointed medical cards the vast majority of whom were single male asylum seekers.

Paula
11 days ago
Reply to  Andrew Devine

Last time I had a doctors appointment there were 9 patients in the waiting room. 5 of us were Irish, one of the 4 non nationals were in their pajamas, in a doctors waiting room not a child an adult in the clothes she slept in sitting in a doctor’s waiting room in a bloody hijab and tartan pajamas

Stephen
11 days ago
Reply to  Paula

Which is more evidence that I believe the figures from the Census are way off. A walk through my town would suggest it is roughly 50/50 .

remembering Easter 1916
11 days ago

to non Irish next generation of blueshirts and finna failure voters 😠time for red card here and go with local independent TDs to sort this mess out 👍💚💚💚

Last edited 11 days ago by remembering Easter 1916
Mary Reynolds
11 days ago

Choose your independent TD carefully. Not all independents are anti-immigration. I must see the words in their manifesto that they are anti -immigration and then they get my vote.

SHANE
11 days ago

Immigration Drain unlike the Irish who emmigrate.No comparion to these parasites

Stephen
11 days ago

The lefties infantile view of immigration is that these exotic visitors are a cross between the Dalai Lama and Gandhi and if we shower them with money, houses, and health care they will be forever grateful and be model citizens. They will never pay back a fraction of this and as soon as the taps runs dry then the screaming will start.

BTN
11 days ago
Reply to  Stephen

Totally agree, naive.

Des
11 days ago

Irish people who fund the scheme need not apply

Mary Reynolds
11 days ago

Even the doctors are speaking out. Doctors do not tell tales about categories of patients or anything but they can’t stand it any more. I’m not going to vote according to Gript’s instructions. I filled all the blanks before and I elected this govt with SF in opposition. I will not vote for my enemies again. I just could not put down numbers after their names. That would signal to me that I want them elected. I’d rather vote for the devil himself than them. I will only vote for anti-immigration candidates this time. I still do not understand how the PR system works. I even asked a man who was a tally man before and he was confused. But one does not have to know all that to vote. Just knowing your numbers is enough. I wish there were more anti-immigration candidates for the council seats. None in some counties, as far as I can see.

Anne Donnellan
11 days ago
Reply to  Mary Reynolds

In my area there are 5 seats. I think I might just give 4 votes

James Hogan
11 days ago
Reply to  Anne Donnellan

Only give a second or third preference to someone you would have otherwise given the number 1 if your first candidate were not running.

James Hogan
11 days ago
Reply to  Mary Reynolds

I asked someone in a similar administration role about PR. He said only give the number 1 to whoever you think deserves it most. If that candidate is not elected your vote will stop with him and not transfer to someone else for whom you would not have voted. In other words do not fill in all the preferences or someone you would have never voted for could eventually end up with your vote.

PaddyBob
11 days ago

On this basis, medicine should be free for every Irish man woman and child! They obvious do not care about the Irish national debt anymore! As soon as a further down-turn comes and the Irish GDP is seen for what it is, (only 50% of what they say it is), Ireland will collapse under the sheer weight of it! Then the state should revenge itself on the current crop of pseudo-politicians.

Paula
11 days ago
Reply to  PaddyBob

It’s a wonder we didn’t copy the Brit’s and have something like the nhs. Maybe we would have been better off

David Sheridan
11 days ago

Real Irish people are being treated as second class citizens in our own country. Our government has become the enemy of the people. They want to destroy our sovereign nation state and replace it with a state which is full of people who have no loyalty to Ireland. Without a shadow of a doubt this government are traitors.

John Quinlan
11 days ago

Wicklow is up there with Dublin West for having the worst TDs in the Dail Time to get them out.

BTN
11 days ago

Same has been happening through NHS for years. – lack of foresight here…..

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