Harney told to "go home" as Irish community in NZ protests

[hammer]

It will all be sorted when she comes back


Well at least until the next scandal is leaked by a whistleblower.
Amazing how the Tallaght scandal replaced the TF childrens scandal.

[Cael]

-we realise the potential this country has if we could just get some decent people to govern it and we're going to stay and fight and sort this mess out.

Ever think of allowing the Irish people to govern themselves?

[Panopticon]

Laidback, you will find that, among the dwindling band of Harney supporters on this site, there is something of a competition in play here. The object seems to be to covet the title of "Last Man Standing" and the vitriol these supporters hurl at any opponent is the measure of the fanaticism with which they defend their chosen political poster girl. It is a sad and pathetic spectacle because history is going to be most unkind to this most odious of political charlatans.

Oh, come on. That is put in the ha'penny place by the utter obsession around here with Harney, and to a lesser extent Coughlan and Hanafin, as opposed to the numerous other ministers who are not covering themselves in glory but mysteriously don't attract the attention of the p.ie boys' band.

[Pauli]

Oh, come on. That is put in the ha'penny place by the utter obsession around here with Harney, and to a lesser extent Coughlan and Hanafin, as opposed to the numerous other ministers who are not covering themselves in glory but mysteriously don't attract the attention of the p.ie boys' band.

Unlike the likes of Cullen, O'Dea, O'Donohue (all going or gone, thank God) or O'Cuiv, Dempsey or Ahern D., who are all visionless and incompetent gombeen parish pump types, Harney comes with a poisonous, warped and destructive ideology. A walking conflict of interest, this woman seems to see her mission as one where she shovels as much of the public money which constitutes the health budget as she can into selected private hands. It is unclear exactly in whose interest she operates but it is crystal clear that the maintenance of a functioning public health system is the furtherest issue from her mind. Since she is not acting in the interest of the general public, she feels, rightly in her own mind, that she is not accountable to the public in any manner whatsoever. The taxpayer exists merely to pay her bills without question. She is a disgrace beyond comparison.

[borntorum]

Says the guy who thinks you have no right to complain about the lack of jobs if the only job available to you involves working in McDonalds*.

*no disrespect to people who work in McDonalds

Charming.

If these guys hate Harney so much, and think she's screwing up the health system here, why did they tell her to go back home? Surely she's better off staying in NZ?

[Eurocitizen]

I read an article in the Evening Herald about this in which it mentions that Mary Harney is keeping stumm about the Tallaght X-Ray fiasco and avoiding conversations with the press.

Apparently she was met outside the Irish Consulate by protesters waving placards demanding her to go home and face up to resignation.

Fair play to the Irish community in Auckland for giving this incompetent Minister something to think about while she's on a lavish 15-day junket. She is a disgrace to this country and I hope we see the back of her soon.

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[An Gilladaker]

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It may surprise you that large crowds never achieve anything it is always the few genuine people who bring change after all how many people claimed they were in the GPO so to those 20 people i say well done and shame on FF for allowing Harney to remain as minster of health

[Pauli]

It may surprise you that large crowds never achieve anything it is always the few genuine people who bring change after all how many people claimed they were in the GPO so to those 20 people i say well done and shame on FF for allowing Harney to remain as minster of health

Shame on FF indeed.

A six year act of extraordinary political spinelessness. FF: the backbones of jellyfish.

[goosebump]

Laidback, you will find that, among the dwindling band of Harney supporters on this site, there is something of a competition in play here. The object seems to be to covet the title of "Last Man Standing" and the vitriol these supporters hurl at any opponent is the measure of the fanaticism with which they defend their chosen political poster girl. It is a sad and pathetic spectacle because history is going to be most unkind to this most odious of political charlatans.

Under Harney's watch:

1. More students at Medical School
2. New Consultants Contract establishing public only contracts and longer working hours
3. The National Cancer Control Strategy
4. The establishment of HIQA
5. The Fair Deal Nursing Home Scheme
6. The establishment of the HSE
7. The establishment of the NTPF and slashing of waiting lists
8. Improvement in Ireland EU Consumer Powerhouse Rating from 26th in 2004 to 13th in 2009

Harney has little to fear from posterity.

[FakeViking]

7. The establishment of the NTPF and slashing of waiting lists

It's easy to slash waiting lists all right. All you have to do is to stop adding people to them, and wait for those on the list to die off.