Eamon Gilmore To Address Students in UCD

[Dan O' Neill]

Eamon Gilmore will be in UCD giving a talk followed by questions on Healthcare and Education in Ireland.

The event takes place in UCD's arts block in Theatre O at 6pm on Thursday April 3rd



Despite our country's affluence access to life-saving health care is becoming more based on a person's ability to pay. Our health service is lurching from one crisis to another and bearing the brunt of it all are patients and health care staff.

Women have been let down by cancer screening services, promised medical cards have not been delivered, our A&E departments going from bad to worse. Now we are seeing a further widening in the two-tier health service with the Government's plan to co-locate private hospitals on the grounds of public hospitals.

In education, we have seen a failure to provide adequate capitation grants for primary schools, the abandoning of the election promise to reduce class sizes, the axing of the summer grant scheme of special and emergency repairs and the long fingering of many school extension programmes.

Eamon will address these issues in the open, public debate.

[seamasdefaoite]

I'd love to go but I usually find it very difficult to reach UCD especially in the evening. Good Luck

[geraghd]

It's like a short bus ride from Naussau st...

[seamasdefaoite]

yeh but to get in to town from clondalkin after school, homework and something to eat is just a nightmare

[CookieMonster]

Bring sammiches for the bus.

[geraghd]

yeh but to get in to town from clondalkin after school, homework and something to eat is just a nightmare

Oh, sorry thought you might have been going from town..

[Dan O' Neill]

Hope I see some of you lads at this event tonight

[Pidge]

Hope I see some of you lads at this event tonight

Bah! I'd really like to go, but I've got three essays which are already late that I haven't started.

Come to think of it...

I'm off.

[freedomlover]

Eamon Gilmore will be in UCD giving a talk followed by questions on Healthcare and Education in Ireland.

The event takes place in UCD's arts block in Theatre O at 6pm on Thursday April 3rd



Despite our country's affluence access to life-saving health care is becoming more based on a person's ability to pay. Our health service is lurching from one crisis to another and bearing the brunt of it all are patients and health care staff.

Women have been let down by cancer screening services, promised medical cards have not been delivered, our A&E departments going from bad to worse. Now we are seeing a further widening in the two-tier health service with the Government's plan to co-locate private hospitals on the grounds of public hospitals.

In education, we have seen a failure to provide adequate capitation grants for primary schools, the abandoning of the election promise to reduce class sizes, the axing of the summer grant scheme of special and emergency repairs and the long fingering of many school extension programmes.

Eamon will address these issues in the open, public debate.

Can someone put the following health questions to him:

(1) Why did the total number of deaths in R. Ireland rise from 30,948 in 1994 to 31,581 in 1997. Since then the number has fallen to 27,479 in 2006, despite a near 20% rise in population.

(2) Why was the age-standardised mortality rate in R. Ireland 10.5% higher than that in N. Ireland in 1997. It is now 6% lower in R. Ireland than in N. Ireland.

(3) Why was R. Ireland the only country in the EU in which the infant mortality rate rose between 1994 and 1997. It rose from 5.7 (per 1,000 births) in 1994 to 6.1 in 1997. Since then it has fallen to 3.1% in 2007.

(4) Why did the median age of death of CF sufferers in R. Ireland fall from 19 years in 1994 to 15.5 years in 1997, 10 years lower than the EU average. Since then it has risen to 25 years in 2004.

Please post his replies on P.ie.

[FakeViking]

It's obvious, isn't it. Rainbow disease. But since the PD's took over government everything is OK.


FFS, why do we even bother with these timewasters! And by the way where is "R. Ireland" anyway?