Fianna Fáil ? - Fianna Failed !
HSE West is currently facing severe cuts to vital health services. A recent report from British consultants Mott McDonald suggests that up to 1,000 temporary jobs could be cut, and it is possible that a whole hospital could be closed as part of a plan to save between €44 and €54 million.If this happens, as stated, the responsibility for the above will lie fairly and squarely on the shoulders of Fianna Fáil.
Controversy surrounding health care is nothing new in the West of Ireland. Fianna Fáil TD for Galway East Michael Kitt issued the following pre-election statement on Tuesday 8th May 2007:
“Tenders are being sought from private developers for the construction of the Healthcare campus on the grounds of the former Bon Secours Hospital, Tuam. It is hoped that building work could commence on the site early next year (2008). The Health Service Executive (HSE) has stated that the development will consist of a 77 bed community hospital including long stay, respite and palliative care beds. An ambulance base is also included in the plan as are mental health facilities, a primary care unit, a health centre and a medical assessment and minor injuries unit.” 3 years later and there is still no sign of a hospital for the people of North Galway and South Mayo".
Since the issuing of that statement it has become apparant that the Tuam hospital project was merely falsified rhetoric specifically designed to fool the public into thinking that Fianna Fáil and their cohorts would be bringing back vital public services to the communities.It has subsequently transpired however, that the rhetoric would not be backed up by substance once the lies had worked and the votes gleaned.
Tuam Council now push a different agenda... that the district court now be moved to the site of the former Bon secours hospital at the expense of the Healthcare campus and to the detriment of the local communities.These people are not acting in the interests of the communities and have failed those they were elected to represent.
To further compound the shelving of the Healthcare campus in Tuam, the Free State Government are now planning to cut €24 million from the budget of the University College Hospital, Galway.
People who have had no choice but to avail of the Hospital facilities in the west of Ireland already know that the Hospitals,clinics and surgeries are already running on empty.They will have seen the patients who have been abandoned in the corridors due to lack of wards,beds and facilities.The vulnerable in Ireland are once again having to pay the price for the Governmental mismanagment of the economy where the fatcats have been bailed out using funds and resources stripped from the working class.
The working class people of Ireland are continually having their pockets picked by the government to shore up the accounts of the fatcats and banks who gambled the wealth of Ireland and lost.
They are being kept in the style in which they have become accustomed and " YOU " are paying for it !
Fianna Fáil represent themselves as a Republican party.They claim to uphold the 1916 proclamation which states:
"The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of all its parts, cherishing all the children of the nation equally."
It appears however... that in the eyes of this government....some are more equal than others !
