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“It seems to me that the menu in HSE facilities is set to be much more about carbon emissions than it is to be about patient health, and surely this is deeply wrong?”
Come back, freshen up the team, focus on the real problems, and admit where you got it wrong.
“I don’t want to comment on individual cases”: After a brief interruption, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar answers whether he takes responsibility for children waiting years for scoliosis surgery – a problem that then-Health Minister Simon Harris said would be solved by 2017. #gript
“Severe shortages.”
“Lessons have been learned” is a cliché in Ireland for a reason. It’s because the reality is that lessons are never, ever, learned.
On the decline.
“Non-traditional pronouns.”
The fact is that for a great many public bodies, wasteful spending is now a way of life.
We’re now at the point where we can ban things because they might be dangerous.
“And that, I fear, is the problem with democracy. It’s only as good as its voters.”
Objectively, the Minister for Health’s computer being hacked should be a major national scandal that prompts an urgent, Government-wide review of IT security protocols and the involvement of the Gardai, the Defence forces, and the state’s intelligence services.
Though pragmatism might be what voters want, the opposition inside and outside of the Dáil is not incentivised to provide it.
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