It was a 1 week trip to Australia with a few other politicians, a good bit of travelling while there and various meetings and functions arranged everyday. The lad who runs that twitter seems an oddball but this doesnât look like public expenditure to be getting too bothered about. It sounded like a fairly boring and very tiring week for those on the trip.
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Yep nothing to get people knickers in a twist about this. Sometimes there is a valid reason to fly business class and a long haul trip to Sydney is one of those times. Now if it was business class to London or anywhere in Europe he could fuck right off.
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I think the policy is for flights of that duration is to go business class, he wouldnât get it for new York or london or something.
Phelan calling out Leo
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Leo will run for cover and send out the sniveling wretch Harris.
The nurses are putting on a serious PR campaign. The government can only come out of it looking like cunts. Where as bus drivers, school teachers etc thereâs an element of the public thinking they have it soft and are overpaid, I donât think many think that of nurses. Certainly I job I wouldnât do anyway.
You canât take on the Nurses and win. Itâs only a matter of how much weâve to cough up at this stage
They want more more and they want more staff more better conditions/safety for patients. Theyâd want to make up their mind.
Successive governments are atrocious at PR on these things.
Problem is, everyone else will want a lollipop if they give them something
We have loads of nurses in Ireland, above the OECD average. They need to move some of the âclinicalâ managers to do some work on wards.
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Well they deserve more money and we need more nurses and better conditions for patients so itâs not exactly a big ask.
Unlike say bus drivers, you can see that conditions are actually better elsewhere and they canât retain staff and young nurses are all off to Oz or wherever and who can blame them.
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The Government will ride this out and keep replacing the Irish Nurses with cheaper more industrious Filipino ones, who have no interest in striking. There isnât a single Filipino or other foreigner on the executive council of the INMO.
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They canât get enough of them though. Thereâs hardly a ward in the country fully staffed.
Why do they?
Would you do that job for that pay?
Why donât you deal with Timâs point that we have plenty of nurses and that there are not enough of them doing actual work
Correct
What pay exactly? Do you believe the myth of nurses on 30k?
I wouldnât say nursing is particularly pleasant anywhere.
Young nurses get worked hard alright, as do the foreign ones. How many Irish nurses over 35 would you see on Wards? Not many, as they move into clinical manager roles.
I agree the HSE is massively top heavy and think itâs a great idea to fix that.
A clinical manager gets 2k per year more than a ward nurse. Not much of a benefit in the job title