In response to the decision by the board of Crumlin Children's Hospital not to be integrated into the planned new National Children's Hospital, Young Fine Gael in Dublin have today called on Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny and Party spokesperson on Health and Children, Dr. Liam Twomey TD, to commit Fine Gael in Government to the expansion and development of Crumlin as the Primary National Hospital for sick children.
Follow Politics.ie on twitter:
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Young Fine Gael say Crumlin Hospital issue "litmus test" of Kenny leadership
In response to the decision by the board of Crumlin Children's Hospital not to be integrated into the planned new National Children's Hospital, Young Fine Gael in Dublin are today calling on Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny and Party spokesperson on Health and Children, Dr. Liam Twomey TD, to commit Fine Gael in Government to the expansion and development of Crumlin as the Primary National Hospital for sick children.
Chair of YFG in Dublin, Georgina Robinson, stated that YFG believes there are huge problems with the proposed location of the new National Children's hospital, and that Crumlin, which has huge scope for development, would be an ideal site for the new facility.
"The current plan to locate the National Children's Hospital in the centre of the city is a prime example of the frankly boneheaded approach to strategic planning taken by the current Government" Ms. Robinson stated.
"Locating the Hospital close to major Public transport services may work in theory, but the one time when people will not choose to use public transport is when they are taking their sick children too and from hospital. Any assumption to the contrary is nothing more than a demonstration that the HSE has no comprehension whatever of basic human instinct".
Ms. Robinson said that a recent visit to Crumlin, encompassing meetings with patients and senior staff, had led YFG to the belief that the Hospital is an underdeveloped resource which could become the shining example of excellence in the health service.
"The provision of excellent standards in children's medicine is one that should be at the heart of what Fine Gael is about. This is not an issue that we think the Party can stay silent on"
"Crumlin has served Irish Children well for decades, and still has huge scope for development. We believe that Enda Kenny and Liam Twomey should stand firmly behind the staff and board of Crumlin Children's Hospital today and in the future. It is time for the party to show some imagination on the issues that really matter to Irish people, and we believe this issue is a litmus test for the leadership" [/i]
Follow Politics.ie on twitter:
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Just looking to make political-capital out of the issue particularly in Dub SW.
Originally Posted by FutureTaoiseach
Failed liberal traitors:
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Sure after pretending they know better than those who drew up the Hanly Report, why should Fine Gael and their youth wing stop there?
I look forward to new policy suggestions (or just plain opposition) from Young Fine Gael where spokespeople in their teens or early twenties pretend to not only know what's best for the country, but to know it better than those independent experts with decades of relevant work experience and qualifications.
There's lots more mileage to be had out of health. Let's have Liz Munnelly tell us how to get rid of MRSA and then gaze in awe as she draws up a comprehensive plan for health spending, all supported by many hours of watching Scrubs.
After that, we can have John Kennedy propose an alternative to the National Spatial Strategy, drawing on his many hours of Sim City and Scalextric.
More seriously, this is pathetic frivolous rubbish from YFG. The country needs opposition, and we need FG to provide it. But of all the things they should oppose, the last of them would be critically important strategic planning for our health services, where plans are drawn up by undoubted experts, using fair and respected criteria, and at a reasonable remove from the government. In fact, they should be concentrating on how the government commissions this work and then doesn't see it through (and the National Spatial Strategy is a fine example of that).
Really, there's SO much more FG and YFG can work on than to second-guess expert strategic planning.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
This press release is not from Young Fine Gael, or approved by it - It is from one member of YFG.
I let Dave know that and suggested he clarify such, but that was ignored.
Effectively the title of this thread should be changed to YFG Member and the references in the press release to YFG, or YFG in Dublin are completely misleading.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Liberio the choice of Mater hospital over Tallaght, not Crumlin looks very suspicion and looks like the wrong decision. There is no standard scoring system to see how each hospital did, as there was in a report on the location of the two Dublin radiotherapy centers. According to the Chairmen of the Mater hospital the Taoiseach had promised that hospital would be the site of the new national pediatric centre before the bids were sent in.
It's very hard to see pass the idea that the Mater only got in because it is in Bertie's consistency. The Mater is in the centre city so it takes ages to get by car and bus because of traffic, it is nowhere near the M50 and it isn't in an area with a lot of children. It also has a poor public transport system and there isn’t room to expand. Basically it doesn’t look like a good place to put a children’s hospital.
Tallaght is beside the M50 so it's easy to get to from all over Dublin and the bordering counties because it doesn’t have the same problem with traffic because it isn’t in the city centre. It has the Luas right beside it and a good bus service. It is an area with a huge number of children, which is still growing and there’s plenty of room to expand. Basically it looks like a good place to put a children’s hospital.
"Give us the future, we've had enough of YOUR past, Give us back our country, to live in, to grow in and to love..."
In fairness JJ, the Christmas edition of the Informer says that Miss Robinson is the Dublin Chair of YFG.
As such, any statement from her IS from Young Fine Gael, is it not?
Certainly, the Chair of Dublin YFG is not just "one member of YFG" like all the rest.
You might as well say that John Deasy is just one member of Fine Gael.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
I would suggest that people wishing to debate the merits of the location of this hospital should move to an already open thread on that here:
http://www.politics.ie/viewtopic.php?t=16200
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
She is the chair of the Dublin Regional Council, a body whose purpose is to co-ordinate the various branches of YFG in Dublin for functions, campaigns etc. It doesn't have a role in deciding what is, or what is not YFG policy.
YFG works in a fairly simple way policy wise - there is a National Conference which votes every 18 months on policy matters, and there is also National Executive which is elected at the Conference which decidse what is, or what is not YFG policy and that can speak on behalf of YFG outside of Conferece. It is fairly tedious and confusing to an outsider, but it would be fairly clear to YFG members.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
LinkBack URL
About LinkBacks
Reply With Quote