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The question is not “palliative care versus assisted dying, which is more dignified?”. The question is not “is there a slippery slope or do we have safeguards?”.
“The big structural issues, like planning backlogs or health capacity crises, or wider EU migration policy, are viewed consistently as being above the political pay grade.”
Minister Mary Butler insists that increased mental health funding in recent years is garnering results for children and young people, and that CAHMS mental health waiting lists for youths are falling. #Budget2025
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.”
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