Its not often I find the phrase from Cromwell’s speech to the Rump Parliament in 1653 coming to mind, but after watching clips of Micheal Woods TD, the former Minister for Education, from back in September 2003 on Prime Time its the only thing that is in my mind. At the end of the interview he blames the people of Ireland for what happened and not the religous orders. See Gavin’s Blog for the full clips from that Prime...
Enda Kenny told the Dáil (today) that he has no confidence in the Minister of State, Tim O’Malley, following the latter’s comments on last night’s Prime Time Investigates. He went on to call for the Taoiseach to seek Minister O’Malley’s resignation over his handling of the services to patients with psychiatric illness and his grossly insensitive comments last night relating to waiting lists for such patients. ‘Mental illness is devastating. It can tear families apart. That is why Fine...
Fine Gael Deputy Health Spokesperson, Dan Neville TD, has said that the dismal response of the current Government to severely sub-standard child and adolescent psychiatric services, despite its unprecedented wealth, amounted to wholesale neglect. Deputy Neville added that unacceptably long waiting lists and the lack of in-patient places for young people, highlighted by the Prime Time programme, had tragically been evident for years. ‘Last night’s Prime Time programme starkly revealed the human suffering of those children and parents abandoned...
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