Evening Herald front page reporting that Mary Harney refuses to leave junket.

[Sailor]

Come home, for a start.

And do what ?

[just4ever]

And do what ?

Be available to all parties involved to provide any and all assistance required.

[FakeViking]

Has Brendan Drumm made any statement about this? Is he in hiding too?

Noticeable for his absence. Maybe on a beach somewhere counting his bonus.

[Sailor]

Be available to all parties involved to provide any and all assistance required.

Don't think I'd take a job with a spec like that - it's waffle

[Sync]

It makes sense to a degree.

The damage is done to her where you have people like Just4Ever (no offence) who genuinely don't understand that you can manage a department and a situation from abroad. They're not bad people, they just don't have that sort of critical thinking. Be it as a result of their own limited professional experience or whatever other reason you want to pick, a very significant portion of the population will think like that, hence the headlines and the interest here etc etc.

She's looking at it from an management POV (Which she can afford to do, as I don't think she's going to run in 2012. She doesn't have to think like a politician) which is that she can

A: Come back, effectivly waste the transit money, waste the opportunities to gain investment, annoy the NZ govt who were going to meet her for Paddies day, and the other organisations that have gone out of their way to arrange appointments with her, to do nothing except wait for a report upon her return.

B: Stay on, do what she was there to do, annoy the voters.

She's choosing to do B. Now if it were me and I was thinking of the next election, I'd probably come home. But I don't think she is.

[Sailor]

Noticeable for his absence. Maybe on a beach somewhere counting his bonus.

This is who they should be looking for - not Harney. I knew we'd agree on something, someday

[Socratus O' Pericles]

And do what ?

Resign

[RichardDeClare]

As Minister she is not responsble for the running of Tallaght Hospital, or its X-ray Department or anything like that, however she is responsible for the HSE who are responsible for this hospital. She is responsible to the Dail and the County that when an issue like this is raised to her office and it is in her juristiction that she tkae some sort of action or initiate an investigation.

Instead she blames the HSE, her own creation and treats the Dail and the people with contempt. She should resign her ministry forthwith!

[redhead101]

Surely the opposition should have suspended the pairing arrangement and called a vote of no confidence before the Dail adjourned.

FYI, they would have to give notice for such a motion, so it couldn't be debated today.

[Sailor]

As Minister she is not responsble for the running of Tallaght Hospital, or its X-ray Department or anything like that, however she is responsible for the HSE who are responsible for this hospital. She is responsible to the Dail and the County that when an issue like this is raised to her office and it is in her juristiction that she tkae some sort of action or initiate an investigation.

Instead she blames the HSE, her own creation and treats the Dail and the people with contempt. She should resign her ministry forthwith!

She doesn't need to travel half-way around the world to decide to have an investigation.