The Minister for Health, despite his Harvard degrees and his once-touted administrative mind, cannot solve scoliosis, or waiting lists, or fix Limerick hospital. So he’s going to give your kids the pill, and call himself a progressive while doing so.
He joked that the project ultimately cost €18.4m
“Is it your job?”
Someone with the talent to effectively run an organisation that large can command that kind of salary in the private sector – so why are we paying our Ministers for Health the salary of a modestly successful country solicitor?
You’d nearly be glad the Dáil is on extended holiday, wouldn’t you?
In a society where the state pays, your waistline suddenly becomes a matter of public policy.
We are spending an additional €30billion annually – can a politician point to €30billion’s worth of betterment in Irish society? Is the Health Service better? Are the Gardai more efficient? Why do we still have a crippling teacher shortage?
This has long been central to Simon Harris’s style of politics.
“This is unacceptable.”
What I’m sure is much more popular with your average voter is instead of liberalising the laws around the purchasing of babies, would be sorting out the health system.
Overall, the objective in healthcare should be to enact one or two small but popular and memorable policies, while leaving overall responsibility for healthcare in the hands of your coalition partners
This time next week, it’ll be polling day, and the whole great circus will come to an end. At least for a few months. Thank God.